dissipated
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- 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
- s unrestrained by convention or morality
deplorably dissipated and degraded - s preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance
led a dissipated life
- The distance between that trouble and our everyday lives has dissipated due to the widespread availability of cable news and the Internet.
- The pastoral joys of baseball, joys that no other sport can match, have dissipated.
- Whatever political value these votes once had getting Republicans on the record in favor of continuing the war has long since dissipated and may actually work against the .