Crossword-Solution: DISSIPATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dissipate | v. t. | To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored. |
| Dissipate | v. t. | To destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use; to squander. |
| Dissipate | v. i. | To separate into parts and disappear; to waste away; to scatter; to disperse; to vanish; as, a fog or cloud gradually dissipates before the rays or heat of the sun; the heat of a body dissipates. |
| Dissipate | v. i. | To be extravagant, wasteful, or dissolute in the pursuit of pleasure; to engage in dissipation. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DISSIPATE (5)
When, with closed eyes, she commenced to speculate upon the future, and terrifying fears were conjured by a vivid imagination, she had but to raise her lids and look upon that noble face so close to hers to dissipate the last remnant of apprehension.
While he staid, the Martins were forgotten; and on the very morning of his setting off for Bath again, Emma, to dissipate some of the distress it occasioned, judged it best for her to return Elizabeth Martin’s visit.
Nioche, having assured him that, so far as he was concerned, the blue-cloaked Madonna herself might have been present at his interview with Mademoiselle Noémie; and left the old man nursing his breast-pocket, in an ecstasy which the acutest misfortune might have been defied to dissipate.
Felix felt, at all times, much the same impulse to dissipate visible melancholy that a good housewife feels to brush away dust.
High on their yards, at their mast-heads they place Lanterns enough, and carbuncles so great Thence, from above, such light they dissipate The sea's more clear at midnight than by day.
Quotes with DISSIPATE (3)
Don’t dash off a six-thousand-word story before breakfast. Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen. Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will none the less get something that looks remarkably like it. Set yourself a “stint,” [London wrote 1,000 words nearly every day of his adult life] and see that you do that “stint” each day; you will have more words to your cr…
Rumors had their own classic epidemiology. Each started with a single germinating event. Information spread from that point, mutating and interbreeding — a conical mass of threads, expanding into the future from the apex of their common birthplace. Eventually, of course, they'd wither and die; the cone would simply dissipate at its wide end, its permutations senescent and exhausted. There were exceptions, of course. Every now and then a single thread persisted, grew thick and…
We need a tremendous amount of energy and we dissipate it through fear but when there is this energy which comes from throwing off every form of fear, that energy itself produces the radical inward revolution.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: New Yorker, NYT, Universal.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1991–2022).