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Definition of Dissipated

Dissipated
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.
Dissipated
Dissipate Dis"si*pate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dissipated; p. pr. & vb. n. Dissipating.] [L. dissipatus, p. p. of dissipare; dis- + an obsolete verb sipare, supare. to throw.] 1. To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored. Dissipated those foggy mists of error. --Selden. I soon dissipated his fears. --Cook. The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy. --Hazlitt. 2. To destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use; to squander. The vast wealth . . . was in three years dissipated. --Bp. Burnet. Syn: To disperse; scatter; dispel; spend; squander; waste; consume; lavish.

Meaning of Dissipated from wikipedia

- certain rate. The entropy production rate times local temperature gives the dissipated power. Important examples of irreversible processes are: heat flow through...
- Middlebury's Dissipated Eight, also known as the D8, is the oldest a cappella group at Middlebury College. The group performs both nationally and internationally...
- destabilization rapidly proceeded apace; the warm front near the Gulf Coast dissipated and then redeveloped northward over the Ohio River valley. Consequently...
- front over northwest Nebraska around 4pm CDT, though the line quickly dissipated with only a supercell able to maintain itself as it went around the corner...
- the east of Laurel before it tracked to the northeast near Whistler and dissipated near Matherville, prompting a PDS tornado warning. The tornado inflicted...
- Meteorological history Formed April 3, 1974, 4:33 p.m. EDT (UTC–04:00) Dissipated April 3, 1974, 5:12 p.m. EDT (UTC–04:00) Duration 39 minutes F5 tornado...
- that the tornado path was visible from satellite. The tornado finally dissipated south of Basham after destroying 546 structures. The fast-moving nighttime...
- and caused seven fatalities. South of Wellsville, the tornado may have dissipated and reformed; it then continued uninterrupted for the rest of its life...
- its second landfall, this time near Tizupan, Michoacán. Hours later, it dissipated for a final time over the coastal mountains. John resulted in strong winds...
- locomotive. It is termed "rheostatic" if the generated electrical power is dissipated as heat in brake grid resistors, and "regenerative" if the power is returned...