dissipate
dis uh payt
- v to cause to separate and go in different directions
- v move away from each other;
- v spend frivolously and unwisely
- v live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption
- After the police fired a few rounds the rampaging mobs dissipated.
- They found that low-level clouds tend to dissipate as the ocean warms which means a warmer world could well have less cloud cover.
- Whether he was led by political instinct or innate conviction, Moynihan believed fiercely in the importance of serious, multi-layered debate, a skill that continues to dissipate as .