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Wast vs Dissipate - What's the difference?

wast | dissipate |

As verbs the difference between wast and dissipate

is that wast is second-person singular past of lang=en while dissipate is to drive away, disperse.

wast

English

Verb

  • (archaic)
  • * 1600 , William Shakespeare, As You Like It , Act 4, Scene 2, (a hunting song),
  • "Take thou no scorn to wear the horn, It was a crest ere thou wast born ..."
  • * 1611 , The Bible, King James (Authorised) Version , (first & last usages),
  • Genesis 3:11 "And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?"
    Revelation 16:5 "And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast , and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus."
  • * 1850 , , The Blessed Damozel , lines 97-99
  • Alas! We two, we two, thou say'st!
    Yea, one wast thou with me
    That once of old.

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    See also

    * am * are * is * art * be * being * been * beest * was * were * wert * vast

    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.