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dissipate
dis‧si‧pate/ˈdɪsəpeɪt, ˈdɪsɪpeɪt/ verb formal [date : 1400-1500; Language : Latin; Origin : dissipare, from supare 'to throw'] 1. [INTRANSITIVE AND TRANSITIVE] to gradually become less or weaker before disappearing completely, or to make something do this: ▪ As he thought it over, his anger gradually dissipated. ▪ Little by little, the smoke was dissipated by the breeze.
2. [TRANSITIVE] to waste something valuable such as time, money, or energy: ▪ His savings were soon dissipated.
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS NOUN energy ▪ The net effect of these factors is to dissipate the energy of the returning hammer. ▪ As penniless brokers they often had to dissipate energy on make-do and mend activities. ▪ Such materials char and melt, rapidly absorbing and dissipating energy as they do so. heat ▪ One has low power requirements, thereby dissipating little heat, the other has high-density circuitry. ▪ More efficient drives dissipate less heat and hence require smaller heat sinks-traditionally the largest component. ▪ This energy is dissipated as heat, and increases the amount of disorder in the universe. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ An evaporation system is used to dissipate heat from the sun and protect the shuttle's electronics. ▪ She had dissipated her fortune by the time she was twenty-five. ▪ The gas cloud had dissipated by late morning. ▪ They dissipated their inheritance money in a very short period of time. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Close to, the illusion of glowing feyness dissipated. ▪ He achieved little in his work and dissipated much of his time in an uncongenial student fraternity. ▪ How does a person not lose him or herself when he or she dissipates such a powerful building block of humanity? ▪ Kirov's anger dissipated somewhat as he played the recording over a couple of times. ▪ My father waited for the energy of my attack to dissipate. ▪ The other method is to dissipate the extra 3. 2 kilometers per second by passing through the upper atmosphere. ▪ The solid nitrogen is also dissipating faster than expected.
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