1. 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.
2. To be extravagant, wasteful, or dissolute in the pursuit of pleasure; to engage in dissipation.
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. Dissipation
(Dis`si*pa"tion) n. [L. dissipatio: cf. F. dissipation.]
1. The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
Without loss or dissipation of the matter.
Bacon.
The famous dissipation of mankind.
Sir M. Hale. 2. 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.
To reclaim the spendthrift from his dissipation and extravagance.
P. Henry. 3. A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.
Prevented from finishing them [the letters] a thousand avocations and dissipations.
Swift. Dissipation of energy. Same as Degradation of energy, under Degradation.
