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  • English Word Dissipate Definition To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored.
  • English Word Dissipate Definition To destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use; to squander.
  • English Word Dissipate Definition To separate into parts and disappear; to waste away; to scatter; to disperse; to vanish; as, a fog or cloud gradually dissipates before the rays or heat of the sun; the heat of a body dissipates.
  • English Word Dissipate Definition To be extravagant, wasteful, or dissolute in the pursuit of pleasure; to engage in dissipation.
  • English Word Dissipated Definition of Dissipate
  • English Word Dissipated Definition Squandered; scattered.
  • English Word Dissipated Definition Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of pleasure; dissolute; intemperate.
  • English Word Dissipating Definition of Dissipate
  • English Word Dissipation Definition The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
  • English Word Dissipation Definition 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.
  • English Word Dissipation Definition A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.
  • English Word Dissipative Definition Tending to dissipate.
  • English Word Dissipativity Definition The rate at which palpable energy is dissipated away into other forms of energy.
  • English Word Dissite Definition Lying apart.
  • English Word Disslander Definition To slander.
  • English Word Disslander Definition Slander.
  • English Word Disslanderous Definition Slanderous.
  • English Word Dissociability Definition Want of sociability; unsociableness.
  • English Word Dissociable Definition Not /ell associated or assorted; incongruous.
  • English Word Dissociable Definition Having a tendency to dissolve social connections; unsuitable to society; unsociable.
  • English Word Dissocial Definition Unfriendly to society; contracted; selfish; as, dissocial feelings.
  • English Word Dissocialize Definition To render unsocial.
  • English Word Dissociate Definition To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance.
  • English Word Dissociated Definition of Dissociate
  • English Word Dissociating Definition of Dissociate
  • English Word Dissociation Definition The act of dissociating or disuniting; a state of separation; disunion.
  • English Word Dissociation Definition The process by which a compound body breaks up into simpler constituents; -- said particularly of the action of heat on gaseous or volatile substances; as, the dissociation of the sulphur molecules; the dissociation of ammonium chloride into hydrochloric acid and ammonia.
  • English Word Dissociative Definition Tending or leading to dissociation.
  • English Word Dissolubility Definition The quality of being dissoluble; capacity of being dissoluble; capacity of being dissolved by heat or moisture, and converted into a fluid.
  • English Word Dissoluble Definition Capable of being dissolved; having its parts separable by heat or moisture; convertible into a fluid.