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Dissipated vs Disappear - What's the difference?

dissipated | disappear |

As verbs the difference between dissipated and disappear

is that dissipated is past tense of dissipate while disappear is to vanish.

As an adjective dissipated

is to have squandered and scattered valuable possessions while devoted to pursuit of self-indulgent pleasures.

dissipated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (dissipate)
  • Adjective

    (head)
  • to have squandered and scattered valuable possessions while devoted to pursuit of self-indulgent pleasures
  • * James dissipated his savings with all of his addictions.
  • Wasteful of health or possessions in the pursuit of pleasure
  • Synonyms

    * dissolute * intemperate

    disappear

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To vanish.
  • (label) To make vanish.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1973, author=Joseph Heller, chapter=38 Kid Sister
  • , title= Catch 22: A Dramatization , genre=Fiction, publisher=Delacorte Press, passage="Did they disappear' him?" / "I don’t know." / "What will you do if they decide to ' disappear you?"}}
  • (label) To go away; to become lost.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
  • , chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared .}}

    Synonyms

    * (to vanish) dematerialize, vanish

    Antonyms

    * (to vanish) appear

    Anagrams

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