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Recede vs Dissipate - What's the difference?

recede | dissipate |

As verbs the difference between recede and dissipate

is that recede is to move back; to retreat; to withdraw while dissipate is to drive away, disperse.

recede

English

Verb

(reced)
  • To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
  • * Dryden
    • Like the hollow roar / Of tides receding from the instituted shore.
  • * Bentley
    • All bodies moved circularly endeavour to recede from the center.
  • To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor.
    • to recede conquered territory
  • To take back.

    • Synonyms

    * withdraw

    Derived terms

    * receding

    Related terms

    * cede * recedence * recession * recess * recessive

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    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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