What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Squandered vs Dissipation - What's the difference?

squandered | dissipation |

As a verb squandered

is (squander).

As a noun dissipation is

the act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.

squandered

English

Verb

(head)
  • (squander)

  • squander

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To waste, lavish, splurge; to spend lavishly or profusely; to dissipate.
  • * 1746 , Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac Agribusiness Management
  • Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=September 24 , author=David Ornstein , title=Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=As the game opened up, Bolton squandered a fine opportunity to equalise - Chris Eagles shooting straight at Szczesny - but then back came Arsenal.}}
  • (obsolete) To scatter; to disperse.
  • * Dryden
  • Our squandered troops he rallies.
  • To wander at random; to scatter.
  • * Shakespeare
  • The wise man's folly is anatomized / Even by squandering glances of the fool.

    Usage notes

    Squander implies starting with many resources, such as great wealth, and then wasting them (using them up to little purpose or little effect), often ending with little. Particularly used in phrases such as “squander an opportunity” or “squander an inheritance”. It may be used even if one starts with little, though usually in some construction such as “squander what little he had”.

    Synonyms

    * waste, splurge * ducks and drakes * throw away

    References

    dissipation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • without loss or dissipation of the matter
  • * Sir M. Hale
  • the famous dissipation of mankind
  • A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in vicious indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness.
  • * P. Henry
  • to reclaim the spendthrift from his dissipation and extravagance
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
  • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 citation , passage=“… This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. I am sure, Lord Stranleigh, that he has been descanting on the distraction of the woods and the camp, or perhaps the metropolitan dissipation of Philadelphia, …”}}
  • A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • Prevented from finishing them [the letters] a thousand avocations and dissipations .
  • (physics) A loss of energy, usually as heat, from a dynamic system