Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Dissipating"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Dissipate \Dis"si*pate\, 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.

Dissipated those foggy mists of error. --Selden.

I soon dissipated his fears. --Cook.

The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate
all intellectual energy. --Hazlitt.

2. To destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use; to
squander.

The vast wealth . . . was in three years dissipated.
--Bp. Burnet.

Syn: To disperse; scatter; dispel; spend; squander; waste;
consume; lavish.

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