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# dissipated

«dissipated» in Mova's school dictionary: **Disappeared slowly by spreading out, like fog, smoke…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (past and past participle of dissipate: dissipate, dissipates, dissipated, dissipating); adjective (a dissipated person)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Disappeared slowly by spreading out, like fog, smoke, heat or a crowd. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dissipated/#m1)

2) Wasted, like money or energy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dissipated/#m2)

3) (old, formal) dissipated person: someone who has spent their life on drinking and wild living. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dissipated/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons on energy, heat is dissipated (spread out and wasted) into the surroundings; in weather, fog and storms dissipate; in stories, anger or fear dissipates; phrases: «the fog dissipated», «energy dissipated as heat».

### examples

- The fog dissipated by midday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dissipated/#x1)
- Most of the energy was dissipated as heat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dissipated/#x2)
- Her anger dissipated when he said sorry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dissipated/#x3)
- The crowd dissipated after the concert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dissipated/#x4)
- The storm dissipated before it reached the coast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dissipated/#x5)
- The smell of burnt toast slowly dissipated. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dissipated/#x6)
- He dissipated his prize money on sweets and comics. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dissipated/#x7)

### note

Regular verb. Noun: dissipation. Double s, single p. In physics: energy is never destroyed; dissipated energy is spread out into the surroundings, usually as heat or sound, and is hard to use.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dissipated» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dissipated/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.