dissipated

IPA: dˈɪsʌpeɪtɪd

adjective

  • Wasteful of health or possessions in the pursuit of pleasure.
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Examples of "dissipated" in Sentences

  • Most traders didn't believe it, and the notion dissipated when the market plunged again.
  • The lone, thin word dissipated with the smoke, and naught remained of Emilio the Corinthian.
  • At the approach of the squat man he sprang to his feet, but a phrase dissipated his apprehension and he nodded toward a door.
  • That the moral capital of all three parties has been dissipated is not lost on the public, whose contempt for the political process has grown.
  • The treaty terms dissipated public elation in the days following the Armistice, when hopes that Allied victory in “the war to end all wars” would result in eternal peace.
  • Another story was that a certain dissipated youth of the community, going home one Saturday night, or rather Sunday morning, from some unhallowed orgy, was pursued by a lamb of fire, with its head cut off and hanging by a strip of skin or flame.

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