1[intransitiveI, transitiveT]LOSE/NOT HAVE ANYMORE to gradually become less or weaker before disappearing completely, or to make something do this (使)〔某事物〕消散,消失
As he thought it over, his anger gradually dissipated.
他想明白後,怒氣就漸漸消了。
Little by little, the smoke was dissipated by the breeze.
在微風的吹拂下煙霧漸漸地消散了。
2[transitiveT]WASTE something to waste something valuable such as time, money, or energy 浪費〔時間〕;揮霍〔金錢〕;耗費〔精力〕
His savings were soon dissipated.
他的積蓄很快就花完了。
Examples from the Corpus
dissipate• Close to, the illusion of glowing feyness dissipated.• My fatherwaited for the energy of my attack to dissipate.• The gascloud had dissipated by late morning.• The solidnitrogen is also dissipatingfaster than expected.• An evaporation system is used to dissipateheat from the sun and protect the shuttle's electronics.• She had dissipated her fortune by the time she was twenty-five.• He achieved little in his work and dissipated much of his time in an uncongenial student fraternity.• Kirov's angerdissipated somewhat as he played the recording over a couple of times.• How does a person not lose him or herself when he or she dissipates such a powerful building block of humanity?• The other method is to dissipate the extra 3. 2 kilometers per second by passing through the upperatmosphere.• They dissipated their inheritance money in a very short period of time.