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DISSIPATED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance
Example:
sporting gents and their ladies
Synonyms:
betting; card-playing; dissipated; sporting
Classified under:
Similar:
indulgent (characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Unrestrained by convention or morality
Example:
fast women
Synonyms:
debauched; degenerate; degraded; dissipated; dissolute; fast; libertine; profligate; riotous
Classified under:
Similar:
immoral (deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb dissipate
Context examples:
The emission dominated Mars' ultraviolet spectrum for several hours after the encounter and then dissipated over the next two days.
(Mars Spacecraft Reveal Comet Flyby Effects on Martian Atmosphere, NASA)
“The group that received the bacteria plus light had more oxygen and the heart worked better,” Woo said, adding that the bacteria “dissipated” in about 24 hours.
(Oxygen-Producing Bacteria Could Help Heart Attack Sufferers, VOA News)
In just a few thousand years they will have dissipated, and all that will be left to see is the dimly glowing white dwarf.
(Hubble Views Final Stages of a Star’s Life, ESA/NASA)
“You are a dissipated fellow, as all the world knows,” he said, with an effort at a smile, “and I am afraid you'll oblige me to get rid of you. Go along! I'll talk to you presently.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
All the surprise and suspense, and every other painful part of the morning dissipated by this conversation, she re-entered the house so happy as to be obliged to find an alloy in some momentary apprehensions of its being impossible to last.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
I really feel like a dissipated London fine lady, writing here so late, with my room full of pretty things, and my head a jumble of parks, theaters, new gowns, and gallant creatures who say Ah! and twirl their blond mustaches with the true English lordliness.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
But whatever idea was forming in his mind, was dissipated by the she-wolf, who advanced upon him, sniffed noses with him for a fleeting instant, and then resumed her coy retreat before his renewed advances.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Upon my word we shall be absolutely dissipated.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
After a few moments' chat, John Dashwood, recollecting that Fanny was yet uninformed of her sister's being there, quitted the room in quest of her; and Elinor was left to improve her acquaintance with Robert, who, by the gay unconcern, the happy self-complacency of his manner while enjoying so unfair a division of his mother's love and liberality, to the prejudice of his banished brother, earned only by his own dissipated course of life, and that brother's integrity, was confirming her most unfavourable opinion of his head and heart.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
He went to college, and he got—plucked, I think they call it: and then his uncles wanted him to be a barrister, and study the law: but he is such a dissipated young man, they will never make much of him, I think.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
