Dissipate vs Deplete - What's the difference?
dissipate | deplete |
To drive away, disperse.
* Cook
* Hazlitt
To use up or waste.
* Bishop Burnet
* 1931 :
To vanish by dispersion.
To empty or unload, as the vessels of the human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.
To reduce by destroying or consuming the vital powers of; to exhaust, as a country of its strength or resources, a treasury of money, etc.
* 2007 . Zerzan, John. Silence .
As verbs the difference between dissipate and deplete
is that dissipate is to drive away, disperse while deplete is to empty or unload, as the vessels of the human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.dissipate
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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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Verb
(deplet)- Its reserves have been invaded and depleted .
