dissipatev.

/ˈdɪsɪpeɪt/

Etymology: < Latin dissipāt- participial stem of dissipāre to spread abroad, scatter, disperse, < dis- prefix 1a + archaic verb supāre, sipāre to throw, throw about, scatter. Compare French dissiper (14th cent.).

a. transitive. To scatter; to drive or cause to go off in all directions; to disperse (that which has been concentrated). archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > drive away > drive away in all directions

to-driveOE

to-dreveOE

to-skairc1175

scattera1300

skaila1300

disparplea1325

sheda1325

discatterc1330

to-scattera1382

sparple1382

to-rusha1387

to-sparplea1387

deperpeyla1400

rat1402

sever1412

to-ratc1440

disparklec1449

scarkle1450

sparklea1470

disperse1503

shudderc1540

sparse1549

dissipate?c1550

to wap sindry1563

squander1622

rout1641

to feeze about1689

?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Three Bks. Eng. Hist. (1844) 199 King Richerd..having gatherid a huge host..because he wold not dissypate his forces..resolvyd [etc.].

1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. B3 She [sc. Mary] both dissipated, and presented the Major part of her Brothers Counsell.

1687 London Gaz. No. 2270/6 They have pressed and dissipated the Ships Company..about 70 in number.

1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. vi. 160 A Lion..Springs o'er the fence, and dissipates the fold.

1822 C. Lamb in London Mag. Nov. 453/1 To pick up her wandering fruit, which some unlucky dray has just dissipated.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. iv. v. 262 Several have dissipated themselves, whithersoever they could.

b. intransitive (for reflexive). To pass away in all directions; (of a company) to disperse.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away in all directions

to-fareOE

to-ferec1000

to-wendc1175

skaila1300

dissipate1660

dispersea1672

sperse1827

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away in all directions > move away in all directions (of things)

spreada1382

dissipe1597

dispel1643

dissipate1660

break1827

to spread off1850

1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 63 Those shelves of sand, which do dissipate, and are spent in the sea.

1679 in O. Airy Lauderdale Papers (1885) III. xciv. 163 The officers of the Dragoones required y^m in the King's names to Dissipate.

1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 250 Woods that enclos'd the Lake, and hinder'd these noxious Steams from dissipating.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iv. iii. 185 At sight of the..Switzers, Saint-Antoine dissipates; hastily, in the shades of dusk.

†2. transitive. To scatter in defeat; to disperse in flight, to rout. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > victory > make victorious [verb (transitive)] > put to flight

to bring or do on (usually a, o) flighta1225

fleya1225

forchasea1400

ruse?a1425

skailc1425

dislodgea1450

to put to (the) flight (or upon the flight)1489

to turn to or into flight1526

discamp1566

flightc1571

dissipate1596

to put to (a, the) rout1596

dissipe1597

rout1600

disrout1626

derout1637

to beat off1650

to send to the right about (also rightabouts)1743

1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xii. lxxvii. 312 The once ship-bearing Ley, by Alfred slu'ste in Three, To dissipate the Dane-Fleete.

1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. ii. 66 The Legion..quickly broke and dissipated what oppos'd them.

1745–9 Rep. Cond. Sir J. Cope 120 Able to tell his Majesty..that you have dissipated a Rebellion in Scotland.

1789 W. Cowper Annus Memorabilis 6 Chiefs, whose single arm could boast Prowess to dissipate a host.

a. To dispel by dispersion or minute diffusion (mist, clouds, etc.); to cause to disappear; to disperse or ‘discuss’ (humours, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > eradicate or extirpate > sin, fear, etc.

updrawc1290

fordo1340

extirp1483

roota1500

dissipate1532

extirpate1538

profligate1542

rout1559

disperse1563

rescind1579

resolve1580

overplough1596

1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 401/2 They wil clerely dissipate and discusse the myst.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 262 The root of marsh Mallow, doth dissipate and scatter all gatherings of humors to an impostume.

1696 tr. J. Dumont New Voy. Levant 116 A thick and black Smoak..was dissipated in a Moment.

1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet iii. 312 Restoring as much Water to the Blood as is dissipated by the Heat.

1810 P. B. Shelley Zastrozzi iv. 43 The rays of the lamp but partially dissipated the darkness.

1875 C. Lyell & L. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 12) I. ii. cccxvii. 396 When the acid is dissipated in the atmosphere.

b. figurative and transferred. To dispel (care, fear, doubt, or anything compared to cloud or darkness).

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > drive away > dispel (cloud, gloom, or immaterial things)

overdriveOE

discuss?c1400

digesta1513

profligate1542

depel?1548

foil1548

sperse1580

disparkle1601

redisperse1621

dispela1631

fray1635

dissipate1691

1691 J. Hartcliffe Treat. Virtues 165 Such Companions, as shall..dissipate our sorrows with their innocent Mirth.

1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 4. ⁋8 [It] has dissipated the Fears of that People.

1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. iv. 78 Cool shades and exquisite viands in a moment dissipated heat and hunger.

1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic v. 103 This illusion may be dissipated by a process of reasoning.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 381 To dissipate his melancholy by breathing the fresh air of that noble terrace.

c. intransitive. To pass away by minute dispersion or diffusion; to disappear.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > be or become invisible [verb (intransitive)] > vanish or disappear

formeltc893

wendOE

witea1000

aworthc1000

fleec1200

fleetc1200

withdraw1297

vanish1303

voidc1374

unkithea1400

startc1405

disappearc1425

disparishc1425

to fall awayc1443

evanish?a1475

vade1495

sinka1500

vade1530

fly1535

fadea1538

melt?1567

dispear1600

relinquish1601

foist1603

dispersea1616

to vanish (melt, etc.) into thin aira1616

dissipate1626

retire1647

evaporate1713

merge1802

illude1820

to foam off1826

dislimn1833

furl1844

to step out1844

evanesce1855

shade1880

wisp1883

to go to the winds1884

walk1898

to do a disappearing act1913

to go west1916

to do (or take) a fade1949

to phase out1970

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §632 The Spirits doe but weaken and dissipate, when they come to the Aire and Sunne.

1640 J. Howell Δενδρολογια 186 Libels neglected quickly finde their owne graves; and diβipat to ayre.

1739 J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. lxxi. 251 The Hardness sensibly dissipated.

1792 J. Almon Anecd. Life W. Pitt (octavo ed.) I. xx. 323 In a few weeks..the public prejudice began to dissipate.

1878 B. Taylor Prince Deukalion i. ii Death and decay are things That dissipate beneath thy radiant eye.

a. transitive. To disintegrate and reduce to atoms, dust, smoke, or impalpable form; to destroy or dissolve completely, undo, annul (material or immaterial objects).

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > annihilate or blot out of existence

dilghec897

defacec1386

annul1395

anientec1400

refer?c1400

extinct1484

annihil1490

delete1495

out-terma1500

perspoil1523

extaintc1540

extinguish1555

blot1561

wipe1564

to cut the throat of1565

annihilate1567

dissipatea1575

annihilate1586

nullify1609

nullize1615

expunge1628

nothing1637

null1647

extramund1654

be-nothing1674

erase1728

obliterate1798

simoom1821

to tear to shreds1837

snuff1852

mop1859

to take out1900

napoo1915

naught1958

a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 45 This matrimony..ought not in any wise to have been dissipated and dissolved.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 260 Fire is given to a trayne..and at length dissipates and blowes up the detested Syrian [an effigy].

1651 in T. Fuller Abel Redevivus 419 The Wars..breaking forth..the University of Wittenburg was dissipated by reason of the same.

1664 Bp. J. Taylor Disswasive from Popery ii. iv. 96 The Legate..revok'd and dissipated all former grants.

1692 J. Ray Misc. Disc. Dissolution World i. 4 Shall the Heavens and Earth be wholly dissipated and destroyed?

1803 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (new ed.) i. xii. 159 Violent hurricanes, by which whole harvests are dissipated.

1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius iii. 45 The crater itself was dissipated in the convulsion.

b. intransitive (for reflexive). To become disintegrated; to moulder to dust or impalpable atoms.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > deteriorate in condition [verb (intransitive)] > decompose, crumble, or melt away

melteOE

fleetc1384

dissolvec1420

unbindc1450

loosec1480

moulder1531

mirtlec1540

mould1542

moulter1568

mutter1609

mosker1612

disband1633

dust1636

dissipatea1676

deliquesce1792

decompose1793

disintegrate1817

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. i. 33 If it gave over its work..it would soon dissolve, dissipate and corrupt.

1880 B. Disraeli Endymion I. ix. 78 His whole position..seemed to dissolve, and dissipate into insignificant fragments.

a. transitive. To scatter or consume wastefully (money, resources, faculties); to waste, squander.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > squander [verb (transitive)]

forspendc893

scatter1154

dispend1303

waste1340

misspendc1390

miswastec1400

consumec1425

waste1474

profund1527

lasha1535

prodige1538

lavish1542

to play away1562

riot1566

embezzle1578

dilapidate1590

squander1593

confound1598

to make ducks and drakes of or withc1600

prodigalize1611

profuse1611

squander1611

paddle1616

bezzle1617

to run out of ——1622

to piss away1628

prodigal1628

decoct1629

to bangle (away)1632

debauch1632

deboise1632

to fribble away1633

to fool out1635

to run outa1640

to fiddle away1667

slattera1681

dissipate1682

to play off1693

duck-and-drake1700

liquidate1702

sparkle away1703

waster1821

befool1861

to frivol away1866

to play (at) duck and drake with1872

to fling away1873

mislive1887

slather1904

mucker1928

profligate1938

peter1956

spaff2002

1682 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Rights Princes (new ed.) ii. 68 The Goods of the Church might not be dissipated.

1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. I. viii. 175 The prelate had dissipated money beyond the income of his place.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. lxi. 550 The elder brothers dissipated their wealth in romantic adventures.

1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. ii. 50 He had dissipated his small paternal inheritance.

1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 99 Rome could not yet afford so to dissipate her energy.

b. intransitive (for reflexive)

ΚΠ

1622 F. Markham Five Decades Epist. of Warre v. vi. §2. 182 The Kings Treasure..which by any lavishnes of an..vnrestrained hand will soone dissipate.

6. transitive. To scatter or distract (attention, thought, mental or practical activity) by variety of objects; to fritter away. The opposite of to concentrate.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > lack of concentration, distraction > distract [verb (transitive)]

fortogglea1300

to call away1529

scatter1530

forhale1579

to draw away1586

diffuse?1587

to call off1606

divert1609

to put out1616

avoke1623

disjoint1628

to take a person out of himself (herself, etc.)1631

to draw off1646

divertise1648

to take off1670

dissipate1684

to turn off1741

to throw out1821

to turn away1848

1684 Bp. G. Burnet tr. T. More Utopia 191 Their Priests think that too much light dissipates the thoughts.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 153. ⁋4 That application which had hitherto been dissipated in general knowledge.

1769 E. Burke Let. 30 July in Corr. (1960) II. 52 Various matters have so dissipated me as to hinder me from a vigorous pursuit of this Object.

c1790 J. Willock Voy. diverse parts 285 The great variety..deranges and dissipates those powers, that in a state of nature have only one object.

1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling i. xii. 111 A gifted amiable being..in danger of dissipating himself into the vague.

1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Dec. 2 Thought may be dissipated into a number of aperçus.

7. intransitive. To practise dissipation; to engage in frivolous or (now usually) dissolute pleasures.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > live sensually [verb (intransitive)] > indulge in debauchery

debauch1644

dissipate1836

1836 T. Hook Gilbert Gurney II. v. 274 I was rather out of spirits, and so I dissipated in a glass of negus and a biscuit.

1839 F. Marryat Diary in Amer. II. 224 He dissipates awfully.

1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 408 The place is not harmless: people go there to dissipate, and do dissipate.

Derivatives

ˈdissipating n. and adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > victory > [adjective] > putting to flight

dissipating1657

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [adjective]

wild13..

desolatec1386

unthrifty1388

riotousc1405

resolute?a1475

palliard1484

dissolutea1513

royetous1526

sluttishc1555

rakehell1556

dissolutious1560

rakehelly1579

hell-raking1593

sportive1597

low1599

lavish1600

rakellyc1600

profligate1627

profligated1652

rantipole1660

abandoned1690

raking1696

rakish1696

dissipated1744

dissipating1818

outward1875

1657 A. Cowley Dk. Buckingham In dissipating Storms, and routed Battels they Did..constant with their Captain stay.

1818 G. S. Faber Horæ Mosaicæ (ed. 2) I. 214 The mixed and dissipating society of a palace.

1891 Spectator Mar. The education of the day is of a somewhat dissipating type.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	dissipate
释义	† dissipateadj. Etymology: < Latin dissipātus, past participle of dissipāre; or short for dissipated: see the verb. Obsolete. = dissipated adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > [adjective] disperse1393 distract1398 scattereda1425 skailed1488 dispersed1526 dissipate1606 dissipated1610 straggled1641 disjected1647 respersed1649 disparpled1652 disseminated1662 shattered1687 sundered1796 decentralized1851 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > [adjective] > driven away in all directions scattereda1425 forscattered1430 sparpled1432 skailed1488 dispersed1526 disparkled1529 severed1581 flittered1582 sparsed1585 discattered1595 disjected1647 squandered1647 dissipateda1711 dissipate1715 the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [adjective] > characterized or marked by squandering > squandered dissipated1738 dissipate1765 squandered1801 1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. Ep. Ded. sig. A iv a So dissipate and large Countries, so rich and populous Citties. 1619 J. Bainbridge Astron. Descr. Late Comet 10 The Sunne rayes were there alwayes more dissipate then in the Comet. 1715 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 101 The best of the rebels' men are dissipate and cut off. 1765 Petit. in Westm. Gaz. 28 Dec. (1894) 8/1 The means employed..in our youth for our instruction in religion and virtue are wholly dissipate. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2021). dissipatev. /ˈdɪsɪpeɪt/ Etymology: < Latin dissipāt- participial stem of dissipāre to spread abroad, scatter, disperse, < dis- prefix 1a + archaic verb supāre, sipāre to throw, throw about, scatter. Compare French dissiper (14th cent.). 1. a. transitive. To scatter; to drive or cause to go off in all directions; to disperse (that which has been concentrated). archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > drive away > drive away in all directions to-driveOE to-dreveOE to-skairc1175 scattera1300 skaila1300 disparplea1325 sheda1325 discatterc1330 to-scattera1382 sparple1382 to-rusha1387 to-sparplea1387 deperpeyla1400 rat1402 sever1412 to-ratc1440 disparklec1449 scarkle1450 sparklea1470 disperse1503 shudderc1540 sparse1549 dissipate?c1550 to wap sindry1563 squander1622 rout1641 to feeze about1689 ?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Three Bks. Eng. Hist. (1844) 199 King Richerd..having gatherid a huge host..because he wold not dissypate his forces..resolvyd [etc.]. 1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. B3 She [sc. Mary] both dissipated, and presented the Major part of her Brothers Counsell. 1687 London Gaz. No. 2270/6 They have pressed and dissipated the Ships Company..about 70 in number. 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. vi. 160 A Lion..Springs o'er the fence, and dissipates the fold. 1822 C. Lamb in London Mag. Nov. 453/1 To pick up her wandering fruit, which some unlucky dray has just dissipated. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. iv. v. 262 Several have dissipated themselves, whithersoever they could. b. intransitive (for reflexive). To pass away in all directions; (of a company) to disperse. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away in all directions to-fareOE to-ferec1000 to-wendc1175 skaila1300 dissipate1660 dispersea1672 sperse1827 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away in all directions > move away in all directions (of things) spreada1382 dissipe1597 dispel1643 dissipate1660 break1827 to spread off1850 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 63 Those shelves of sand, which do dissipate, and are spent in the sea. 1679 in O. Airy Lauderdale Papers (1885) III. xciv. 163 The officers of the Dragoones required y^m in the King's names to Dissipate. 1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 250 Woods that enclos'd the Lake, and hinder'd these noxious Steams from dissipating. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iv. iii. 185 At sight of the..Switzers, Saint-Antoine dissipates; hastily, in the shades of dusk. †2. transitive. To scatter in defeat; to disperse in flight, to rout. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > victory > make victorious [verb (transitive)] > put to flight to bring or do on (usually a, o) flighta1225 fleya1225 forchasea1400 ruse?a1425 skailc1425 dislodgea1450 to put to (the) flight (or upon the flight)1489 to turn to or into flight1526 discamp1566 flightc1571 dissipate1596 to put to (a, the) rout1596 dissipe1597 rout1600 disrout1626 derout1637 to beat off1650 to send to the right about (also rightabouts)1743 1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xii. lxxvii. 312 The once ship-bearing Ley, by Alfred slu'ste in Three, To dissipate the Dane-Fleete. 1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. ii. 66 The Legion..quickly broke and dissipated what oppos'd them. 1745–9 Rep. Cond. Sir J. Cope 120 Able to tell his Majesty..that you have dissipated a Rebellion in Scotland. 1789 W. Cowper Annus Memorabilis 6 Chiefs, whose single arm could boast Prowess to dissipate a host. 3. a. To dispel by dispersion or minute diffusion (mist, clouds, etc.); to cause to disappear; to disperse or ‘discuss’ (humours, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > eradicate or extirpate > sin, fear, etc. updrawc1290 fordo1340 extirp1483 roota1500 dissipate1532 extirpate1538 profligate1542 rout1559 disperse1563 rescind1579 resolve1580 overplough1596 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 401/2 They wil clerely dissipate and discusse the myst. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 262 The root of marsh Mallow, doth dissipate and scatter all gatherings of humors to an impostume. 1696 tr. J. Dumont New Voy. Levant 116 A thick and black Smoak..was dissipated in a Moment. 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet iii. 312 Restoring as much Water to the Blood as is dissipated by the Heat. 1810 P. B. Shelley Zastrozzi iv. 43 The rays of the lamp but partially dissipated the darkness. 1875 C. Lyell & L. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 12) I. ii. cccxvii. 396 When the acid is dissipated in the atmosphere. b. figurative and transferred. To dispel (care, fear, doubt, or anything compared to cloud or darkness). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > drive away > dispel (cloud, gloom, or immaterial things) overdriveOE discuss?c1400 digesta1513 profligate1542 depel?1548 foil1548 sperse1580 disparkle1601 redisperse1621 dispela1631 fray1635 dissipate1691 1691 J. Hartcliffe Treat. Virtues 165 Such Companions, as shall..dissipate our sorrows with their innocent Mirth. 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 4. ⁋8 [It] has dissipated the Fears of that People. 1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. iv. 78 Cool shades and exquisite viands in a moment dissipated heat and hunger. 1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic v. 103 This illusion may be dissipated by a process of reasoning. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 381 To dissipate his melancholy by breathing the fresh air of that noble terrace. c. intransitive. To pass away by minute dispersion or diffusion; to disappear. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > be or become invisible [verb (intransitive)] > vanish or disappear formeltc893 wendOE witea1000 aworthc1000 fleec1200 fleetc1200 withdraw1297 vanish1303 voidc1374 unkithea1400 startc1405 disappearc1425 disparishc1425 to fall awayc1443 evanish?a1475 vade1495 sinka1500 vade1530 fly1535 fadea1538 melt?1567 dispear1600 relinquish1601 foist1603 dispersea1616 to vanish (melt, etc.) into thin aira1616 dissipate1626 retire1647 evaporate1713 merge1802 illude1820 to foam off1826 dislimn1833 furl1844 to step out1844 evanesce1855 shade1880 wisp1883 to go to the winds1884 walk1898 to do a disappearing act1913 to go west1916 to do (or take) a fade1949 to phase out1970 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §632 The Spirits doe but weaken and dissipate, when they come to the Aire and Sunne. 1640 J. Howell Δενδρολογια 186 Libels neglected quickly finde their owne graves; and diβipat to ayre. 1739 J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. lxxi. 251 The Hardness sensibly dissipated. 1792 J. Almon Anecd. Life W. Pitt (octavo ed.) I. xx. 323 In a few weeks..the public prejudice began to dissipate. 1878 B. Taylor Prince Deukalion i. ii Death and decay are things That dissipate beneath thy radiant eye. 4. a. transitive. To disintegrate and reduce to atoms, dust, smoke, or impalpable form; to destroy or dissolve completely, undo, annul (material or immaterial objects). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > annihilate or blot out of existence dilghec897 defacec1386 annul1395 anientec1400 refer?c1400 extinct1484 annihil1490 delete1495 out-terma1500 perspoil1523 extaintc1540 extinguish1555 blot1561 wipe1564 to cut the throat of1565 annihilate1567 dissipatea1575 annihilate1586 nullify1609 nullize1615 expunge1628 nothing1637 null1647 extramund1654 be-nothing1674 erase1728 obliterate1798 simoom1821 to tear to shreds1837 snuff1852 mop1859 to take out1900 napoo1915 naught1958 a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 45 This matrimony..ought not in any wise to have been dissipated and dissolved. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 260 Fire is given to a trayne..and at length dissipates and blowes up the detested Syrian [an effigy]. 1651 in T. Fuller Abel Redevivus 419 The Wars..breaking forth..the University of Wittenburg was dissipated by reason of the same. 1664 Bp. J. Taylor Disswasive from Popery ii. iv. 96 The Legate..revok'd and dissipated all former grants. 1692 J. Ray Misc. Disc. Dissolution World i. 4 Shall the Heavens and Earth be wholly dissipated and destroyed? 1803 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (new ed.) i. xii. 159 Violent hurricanes, by which whole harvests are dissipated. 1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius iii. 45 The crater itself was dissipated in the convulsion. b. intransitive (for reflexive). To become disintegrated; to moulder to dust or impalpable atoms. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > deteriorate in condition [verb (intransitive)] > decompose, crumble, or melt away melteOE fleetc1384 dissolvec1420 unbindc1450 loosec1480 moulder1531 mirtlec1540 mould1542 moulter1568 mutter1609 mosker1612 disband1633 dust1636 dissipatea1676 deliquesce1792 decompose1793 disintegrate1817 a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. i. 33 If it gave over its work..it would soon dissolve, dissipate and corrupt. 1880 B. Disraeli Endymion I. ix. 78 His whole position..seemed to dissolve, and dissipate into insignificant fragments. 5. a. transitive. To scatter or consume wastefully (money, resources, faculties); to waste, squander. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > squander [verb (transitive)] forspendc893 scatter1154 dispend1303 waste1340 misspendc1390 miswastec1400 consumec1425 waste1474 profund1527 lasha1535 prodige1538 lavish1542 to play away1562 riot1566 embezzle1578 dilapidate1590 squander1593 confound1598 to make ducks and drakes of or withc1600 prodigalize1611 profuse1611 squander1611 paddle1616 bezzle1617 to run out of ——1622 to piss away1628 prodigal1628 decoct1629 to bangle (away)1632 debauch1632 deboise1632 to fribble away1633 to fool out1635 to run outa1640 to fiddle away1667 slattera1681 dissipate1682 to play off1693 duck-and-drake1700 liquidate1702 sparkle away1703 waster1821 befool1861 to frivol away1866 to play (at) duck and drake with1872 to fling away1873 mislive1887 slather1904 mucker1928 profligate1938 peter1956 spaff2002 1682 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Rights Princes (new ed.) ii. 68 The Goods of the Church might not be dissipated. 1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. I. viii. 175 The prelate had dissipated money beyond the income of his place. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. lxi. 550 The elder brothers dissipated their wealth in romantic adventures. 1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. ii. 50 He had dissipated his small paternal inheritance. 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 99 Rome could not yet afford so to dissipate her energy. b. intransitive (for reflexive) ΚΠ 1622 F. Markham Five Decades Epist. of Warre v. vi. §2. 182 The Kings Treasure..which by any lavishnes of an..vnrestrained hand will soone dissipate. 6. transitive. To scatter or distract (attention, thought, mental or practical activity) by variety of objects; to fritter away. The opposite of to concentrate. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > lack of concentration, distraction > distract [verb (transitive)] fortogglea1300 to call away1529 scatter1530 forhale1579 to draw away1586 diffuse?1587 to call off1606 divert1609 to put out1616 avoke1623 disjoint1628 to take a person out of himself (herself, etc.)1631 to draw off1646 divertise1648 to take off1670 dissipate1684 to turn off1741 to throw out1821 to turn away1848 1684 Bp. G. Burnet tr. T. More Utopia 191 Their Priests think that too much light dissipates the thoughts. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 153. ⁋4 That application which had hitherto been dissipated in general knowledge. 1769 E. Burke Let. 30 July in Corr. (1960) II. 52 Various matters have so dissipated me as to hinder me from a vigorous pursuit of this Object. c1790 J. Willock Voy. diverse parts 285 The great variety..deranges and dissipates those powers, that in a state of nature have only one object. 1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling i. xii. 111 A gifted amiable being..in danger of dissipating himself into the vague. 1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Dec. 2 Thought may be dissipated into a number of aperçus. 7. intransitive. To practise dissipation; to engage in frivolous or (now usually) dissolute pleasures. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > live sensually [verb (intransitive)] > indulge in debauchery debauch1644 dissipate1836 1836 T. Hook Gilbert Gurney II. v. 274 I was rather out of spirits, and so I dissipated in a glass of negus and a biscuit. 1839 F. Marryat Diary in Amer. II. 224 He dissipates awfully. 1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 408 The place is not harmless: people go there to dissipate, and do dissipate. Derivatives ˈdissipating n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > victory > [adjective] > putting to flight dissipating1657 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [adjective] wild13.. desolatec1386 unthrifty1388 riotousc1405 resolute?a1475 palliard1484 dissolutea1513 royetous1526 sluttishc1555 rakehell1556 dissolutious1560 rakehelly1579 hell-raking1593 sportive1597 low1599 lavish1600 rakellyc1600 profligate1627 profligated1652 rantipole1660 abandoned1690 raking1696 rakish1696 dissipated1744 dissipating1818 outward1875 1657 A. Cowley Dk. Buckingham In dissipating Storms, and routed Battels they Did..constant with their Captain stay. 1818 G. S. Faber Horæ Mosaicæ (ed. 2) I. 214 The mixed and dissipating society of a palace. 1891 Spectator Mar. The education of the day is of a somewhat dissipating type. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.1606v.1532
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