Dissipate



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• v. ( 使) 驱散; 浪费
• ［英］ v. ( 使) 驱散 ( to drive completely away; make disappear; scatter) ; 浪费 ( to waste or squander)
• ［记］ 分割记忆: dis+sip ( 喝, 饮) , 到处吃喝 -> 浪费;sip本身是一个常考单词

Webster Collegiate

verb (-pated; -pating)

• Etymology: Latin dissipatus, past participle of dissipare, dissupare, from dis- + supare to throw
• Date: 15th century
• transitive verb
  • 1.
    • a. to break up and drive off (as a crowd)
    • b. to cause to spread thin or scatter and gradually vanish <one's sympathy is eventually dissipated — Andrew Feinberg>
    • c. to lose (as heat or electricity) irrecoverably
  • 2. to spend or use up wastefully or foolishly <dissipated the family fortune in reckless business ventures>
• intransitive verb
  • 1. to break up and scatter or vanish <the clouds soon dissipated><the team's early momentum has dissipated>
  • 2. to be extravagant or dissolute in the pursuit of pleasure; especially to drink to excess
• Synonyms: see scatter
• ? dissipater noun

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