Dissipate vs Disintegrate - What's the difference?
dissipate | disintegrate |
To drive away, disperse.
* Cook
* Hazlitt
To use up or waste.
* Bishop Burnet
* 1931 :
To vanish by dispersion.
To undo the integrity of, break into parts.
* Kirwan
To fall apart, break up into parts.
As verbs the difference between dissipate and disintegrate
is that dissipate is to drive away, disperse while disintegrate is to undo the integrity of, break into parts.dissipate
English
Verb
(dissipat)- I soon dissipated his fears.
- The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy.
- The vast wealth was in three years dissipated .
- So much for the effort and ingenuity of Montmartre. All the catering to vice and waste was on an utterly childish scale, and he suddenly realized the meaning of the word "dissipate'"—to ' dissipate into thin air; to make nothing out of something.
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English
Verb
(disintegrat)- Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years.