Dissipater vs Dissipates - What's the difference?
dissipater | dissipates |
(dissipate)
To drive away, disperse.
* Cook
* Hazlitt
To use up or waste.
* Bishop Burnet
* 1931 :
To vanish by dispersion.
As a noun dissipater
is .As a verb dissipates is
.dissipates
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(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.