Dissipate vs Alleviate - What's the difference?
dissipate | alleviate |
To drive away, disperse.
* Cook
* Hazlitt
To use up or waste.
* Bishop Burnet
* 1931 :
To vanish by dispersion.
To make less severe, as a pain or difficulty.
As verbs the difference between dissipate and alleviate
is that dissipate is to drive away, disperse while alleviate is to make less severe, as a pain or difficulty.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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* * ----alleviate
English
Verb
- Alcohol is often a cheap tool to alleviate the stress of a hard day.
