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Define the word Dissipated

"Dissipated" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Dissipated \Dis"si*pa`ted\ (d[i^]s"s[i^]*p[=a]`t[e^]d), a.
   1. Squandered; scattered. "Dissipated wealth." --Johnson.
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   2. Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of
      pleasure; dissolute; intemperate.
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            A life irregular and dissipated.      --Johnson.
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"Dissipated" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
dissipate \dis"si*pate\ (d[i^]s"s[i^]*p[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p.
   p. Dissipated; p. pr. & vb. n. Dissipating.] [L.
   dissipatus, p. p. of dissipare; dis- + an obsolete verb
   sipare, supare. to throw.]
   1. To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear;
      -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never
      again be collected or restored.
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            Dissipated those foggy mists of error. --Selden.
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            I soon dissipated his fears.          --Cook.
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            The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate
            all intellectual energy.              --Hazlitt.
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   2. To destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use; to
      squander.
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            The vast wealth . . . was in three years dissipated.
                                                  --Bp. Burnet.

   Syn: To disperse; scatter; dispel; spend; squander; waste;
        consume; lavish.
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"dissipated" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
dissipated
     adj 1: unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a
            debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably
            dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast
            women" [syn: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissolute,
             libertine, profligate, riotous, fast]
     2: preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially
        games of chance; "led a dissipated life"; "a betting man";
        "a card-playing son of a bitch"; "a gambling fool";
        "sporting gents and their ladies" [syn: betting, card-playing,
         gambling, sporting]
"dissipated" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
93 Moby Thesaurus words for "dissipated":
   abandoned, abated, ablated, attenuated, bated, belittled,
   broadcast, burnt up, by the board, consumed, contracted, curtailed,
   debauched, decreased, deflated, depleted, diffuse, diminished,
   discrete, dispersed, dispread, disseminated, dissolute,
   distributed, down the drain, drained, dropped, eaten up, effete,
   eroded, exhausted, expended, fallen, fast, finished, forfeit,
   forfeited, free, free-living, gallant, gay, gone, gone to waste,
   high-living, impoverished, irretrievable, less, lesser, licentious,
   long-lost, lost, lost to, lower, lowered, miniaturized, misspent,
   out the window, profligate, rakehell, rakehellish, rakehelly,
   rakish, reduced, retrenched, riotous, run to seed, scaled-down,
   scattered, shorn, shorter, shrunk, shrunken, smaller, sparse,
   spent, sporadic, spread, squandered, straggling, straggly, strewn,
   strown, unbridled, used, used up, wasted, watered-down, weakened,
   widespread, wild, worn, worn away, worn-out





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