Dissipating

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  dissipate \dis"si*pate\ (d[i^]s"s[i^]*p[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p.
     p. {Dissipated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dissipating}.] [L.
     dissipatus, p. p. of dissipare; dis- + an obsolete verb
     sipare, supare. to throw.]
     1. To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear;
        -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never


        again be collected or restored.
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              Dissipated those foggy mists of error. --Selden.
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              I soon dissipated his fears.          --Cook.
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              The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate
              all intellectual energy.              --Hazlitt.
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     2. To destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use; to
        squander.
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              The vast wealth . . . was in three years dissipated.
                                                    --Bp. Burnet.
  
     Syn: To disperse; scatter; dispel; spend; squander; waste;
          consume; lavish.
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