Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dissipated"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dissipated \Dis"si*pa`ted\, a.
1. Squandered; scattered. ``Dissipated wealth.'' --Johnson.
2. Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of
pleasure; dissolute; intemperate.
A life irregular and dissipated. --Johnson.
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
dissipated
adj 1: unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a
debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably
dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast
women" [syn: {debauched}, {degenerate}, {degraded}, {dissolute},
{libertine}, {profligate}, {riotous}, {fast}]
2: preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially
games of chance; "led a dissipated life"; "a betting man";
"a card-playing son of a bitch"; "a gambling fool";
"sporting gents and their ladies" [syn: {betting}, {card-playing},
{gambling}, {sporting}]
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