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Dissipated vs Rakehell - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between dissipated and rakehell

is that dissipated is to have squandered and scattered valuable possessions while devoted to pursuit of self-indulgent pleasures while rakehell is {{tcx|archaic|lang=en}} Immoral; dissolute.

As a verb dissipated

is past tense of dissipate.

As a noun rakehell is

{{tcx|archaic|lang=en}} A lewd or wanton person; a debauchee; a rake.

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

    rakehell

    English

    Alternative forms

    * rake-hell

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.11:
  • *:And farre away, amid their rakehell bands, / They spide a Lady left all succourlesse […].

    • Synonyms

    * rakehelly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * Barrow
    • It seldom doth happen, in any way of life, that a sluggard and a rakehell do not go together.