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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dissipated \dis"sipa`ted\ di^s"si^p=a`te^d, a.
   1. squandered; scattered. "dissipated wealth." --johnson.
      1913 webster

   2. wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of
      pleasure; dissolute; intemperate.
      1913 webster

            a life irregular and dissipated.      --johnson.
      1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dissipate \dis"sipate\ di^s"si^p=at, 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.
      1913 webster

            dissipated those foggy mists of error. --selden.
      1913 webster

            i soon dissipated his fears.          --cook.
      1913 webster

            the extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate
            all intellectual energy.              --hazlitt.
      1913 webster

   2. to destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use; to
      squander.
      1913 webster

            the vast wealth . . . was in three years dissipated.
                                                  --bp. burnet.

   syn: to disperse; scatter; dispel; spend; squander; waste;
        consume; lavish.
        1913 webster
see also:
dissipated dissipating 
[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
dissipated
     adj 1: unrestrained by convention or morality; "congreve draws a
            debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably
            dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast
            women" syn: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissolute,
             libertine, profligate, riotous, fast
     2: preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially
        games of chance; "led a dissipated life"; "a betting man";
        "a card-playing son of a bitch"; "a gambling fool";
        "sporting gents and their ladies" syn: betting, card-playing,
         gambling, sporting
see also:
debauched degenerate degraded dissolute libertine profligate 
riotous fast betting card-playing gambling 
sporting 
[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
93 moby thesaurus words for "dissipated":
   abandoned, abated, ablated, attenuated, bated, belittled,
   broadcast, burnt up, by the board, consumed, contracted, curtailed,
   debauched, decreased, deflated, depleted, diffuse, diminished,
   discrete, dispersed, dispread, disseminated, dissolute,
   distributed, down the drain, drained, dropped, eaten up, effete,
   eroded, exhausted, expended, fallen, fast, finished, forfeit,
   forfeited, free, free-living, gallant, gay, gone, gone to waste,
   high-living, impoverished, irretrievable, less, lesser, licentious,
   long-lost, lost, lost to, lower, lowered, miniaturized, misspent,
   out the window, profligate, rakehell, rakehellish, rakehelly,
   rakish, reduced, retrenched, riotous, run to seed, scaled-down,
   scattered, shorn, shorter, shrunk, shrunken, smaller, sparse,
   spent, sporadic, spread, squandered, straggling, straggly, strewn,
   strown, unbridled, used, used up, wasted, watered-down, weakened,
   widespread, wild, worn, worn away, worn-out





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