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Dissipate vs Thunderstorm - What's the difference?

dissipate | thunderstorm |

As a verb dissipate

is to drive away, disperse.

As a noun thunderstorm is

a storm consisting of thunder and lightning produced by a cumulonimbus, usually accompanied with heavy rain, wind, and sometimes hail; and in rarer cases sleet, freezing rain, or snow.

dissipate

English

Verb

(dissipat)
  • To drive away, disperse.
  • * Cook
    • I soon dissipated his fears.
  • * Hazlitt
    • The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy.
  • To use up or waste.
  • * Bishop Burnet
    • The vast wealth was in three years dissipated .
  • * 1931 :
    • 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.
  • To vanish by dispersion.

    • Related terms

    * dissipation

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    thunderstorm

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A storm consisting of thunder and lightning produced by a cumulonimbus, usually accompanied with heavy rain, wind, and sometimes hail; and in rarer cases sleet, freezing rain, or snow.