Subside vs Dissipate - What's the difference?
subside | dissipate |
To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle, as lees.
To tend downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink.
To fall into a state of quiet; to cease to rage; to be calmed; to settle down; to become tranquil; to abate.
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*:Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside , his lids fluttered, then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals,.
To drive away, disperse.
* Cook
* Hazlitt
To use up or waste.
* Bishop Burnet
* 1931 :
To vanish by dispersion.
As verbs the difference between subside and dissipate
is that subside is to sink or fall to the bottom; to settle, as lees while dissipate is to drive away, disperse.subside
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(subsid)dissipate
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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.