Found 3 items, similar to Dissipating.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: dissipate
menghamburkan, meresap
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: dissipate
dissipate
v 1: to cause to separate and go in different directions;
“She
waved her hand and scattered the crowds” [syn:
disperse,
dispel,
break up,
scatter]
2: move away from each other;
“The crowds dispersed”;
“The
children scattered in all directions when the teacher
approached”; [syn:
disperse,
scatter,
spread out]
3: spend frivolously and unwisely;
“Fritter away one's
inheritance” [syn:
fritter,
frivol away,
shoot,
fritter away
,
fool,
fool away]
4: live a life or pleasure, especially with respect to
alcoholic consumption
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Dissipating
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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