"dissipate" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ˈdɪsɪpeɪt/ Audio: en-ca-dissipate.oga [Canada] Forms: dissipates [present, singular, third-person], dissipating [participle, present], dissipated [participle, past], dissipated [past]
Etymology: From Middle English dissipaten, from Latin dissipātus, past participle of dissipāre, also written dissupare (“to scatter, disperse, demolish, destroy, squander, dissipate”), from dis- (“apart”) + supāre (“to throw”), also in comp. insipāre (“to throw into”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|dissipaten}} Middle English dissipaten, {{der|en|la|dissipātus}} Latin dissipātus, {{m|la|dissipō|dissipāre}} dissipāre, {{m|la|dissupare||to scatter, disperse, demolish, destroy, squander, dissipate}} dissupare (“to scatter, disperse, demolish, destroy, squander, dissipate”), {{m|la|dis-||apart}} dis- (“apart”), {{m|la|supō|supāre|t=to throw}} supāre (“to throw”), {{m|la|insipō|insipāre|t=to throw into}} insipāre (“to throw into”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} dissipate (third-person singular simple present dissipates, present participle dissipating, simple past and past participle dissipated)
  1. (transitive) To drive away, disperse. Tags: transitive Translations (to drive away): ցրել (cʿrel) (Armenian), разсейвам (razsejvam) (Bulgarian), разпръсквам (razprǎskvam) (Bulgarian), rozptýlit (Czech), verdrijven (Dutch), zerstreuen (German), zerteilen (German), verscheuchen (German), lösen (German), abbauen (German), zersplittern (German), dissipieren (German), dissipare (Italian)
    Sense id: en-dissipate-en-verb-jx5TaNPX Disambiguation of 'to drive away': 92 3 1 3 0
  2. (transitive) To use up or waste; squander. Tags: transitive Translations (to use up or waste): пропилявам (propiljavam) (Bulgarian), verbruiken (Dutch), verspillen (Dutch), verkwisten (Dutch), aufbrauchen (German), verbrauchen (German), abbauen (German), auflösen (German), verschwenden (German), vergeuden (German), ableiten (German), verprassen (German), verzetteln (German), verschleudern (German), διαχέω (diachéo) (Greek), disipar (Ido)
    Sense id: en-dissipate-en-verb--5qpUUfu Disambiguation of 'to use up or waste': 4 91 1 3 0
  3. (intransitive) To vanish by dispersion. Tags: intransitive Translations (to vanish): verdwijnen (Dutch), verschwinden (German), abführen (German), verflüchtigen (German), sich auflösen (German), sich zerteilen (German), sich zerstreuen (German), memeha (Maori), skingra (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-dissipate-en-verb-EVEHaomx Disambiguation of 'to vanish': 10 7 73 9 1
  4. (physics) To cause energy to be lost through its conversion to heat. Categories (topical): Physics
    Sense id: en-dissipate-en-verb-qgHybQqi Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
  5. (intransitive, colloquial, dated) To be dissolute in conduct. Tags: colloquial, dated, intransitive
    Sense id: en-dissipate-en-verb-Xr~kF2WS
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: dissipation

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          "ref": "1960 April, “English Electric diesels for the Sudan Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 218",
          "text": "The traction motors serve as generators when dynamic braking is used, the generated output being dissipated in fan-cooled resistance banks mounted in a removable roof section.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "July 26 2023, David Clough, “Technology progression defines Class 93”, in RAIL, number 988, page 54",
          "text": "Regenerative braking is retained. Like rheostatic braking, this uses the traction motors to provide a braking effort, but the current developed is fed back into the overhead catenary rather than dissipated through resistance banks.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause energy to be lost through its conversion to heat."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "physics",
          "physics"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(physics) To cause energy to be lost through its conversion to heat."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "physics"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English dated terms",
        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be dissolute in conduct."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dissolute",
          "dissolute"
        ],
        [
          "conduct",
          "conduct"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, colloquial, dated) To be dissolute in conduct."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "dated",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdɪsɪpeɪt/"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Canada"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (CA)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "cʿrel",
      "sense": "to drive away",
      "word": "ցրել"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "razsejvam",
      "sense": "to drive away",
      "word": "разсейвам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "razprǎskvam",
      "sense": "to drive away",
      "word": "разпръсквам"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to drive away",
      "word": "rozptýlit"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to drive away",
      "word": "verdrijven"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to drive away",
      "word": "zerstreuen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to drive away",
      "word": "zerteilen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to drive away",
      "word": "verscheuchen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to drive away",
      "word": "lösen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to drive away",
      "word": "abbauen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to drive away",
      "word": "zersplittern"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to drive away",
      "word": "dissipieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to drive away",
      "word": "dissipare"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "propiljavam",
      "sense": "to use up or waste",
      "word": "пропилявам"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to use up or waste",
      "word": "verbruiken"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to use up or waste",
      "word": "verspillen"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to use up or waste",
      "word": "verkwisten"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to use up or waste",
      "word": "aufbrauchen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to use up or waste",
      "word": "verbrauchen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to use up or waste",
      "word": "abbauen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to use up or waste",
      "word": "auflösen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to use up or waste",
      "word": "verschwenden"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to use up or waste",
      "word": "vergeuden"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to use up or waste",
      "word": "ableiten"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to use up or waste",
      "word": "verprassen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to use up or waste",
      "word": "verzetteln"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to use up or waste",
      "word": "verschleudern"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "diachéo",
      "sense": "to use up or waste",
      "word": "διαχέω"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "to use up or waste",
      "word": "disipar"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to vanish",
      "word": "verdwijnen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to vanish",
      "word": "verschwinden"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to vanish",
      "word": "abführen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to vanish",
      "word": "verflüchtigen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to vanish",
      "word": "sich auflösen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to vanish",
      "word": "sich zerteilen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to vanish",
      "word": "sich zerstreuen"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to vanish",
      "word": "memeha"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to vanish",
      "word": "skingra"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dissipate"
}

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