dissipate
- IPA[ˈdɪsɪpeɪt]
英式
- (with reference to a feeling or emotion) disappear or cause to disappear；disperse or scatter
verb: dissipate, 3rd person present: dissipates, gerund or present participle: dissipating, past tense: dissipated, past participle: dissipated
- 釋義
動詞
- 1. (with reference to a feeling or emotion) disappear or cause to disappear the concern she'd felt for him had wholly dissipated he wanted to dissipate his anger 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ disperse or scatter the cloud of smoke dissipated
- 2. waste or fritter away (money, energy, or resources) he inherited, but then dissipated, his father's fortune 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ cause (energy) to be lost through its conversion to heat no power is dissipated in this sort of control element
