All 11 Uses of
dissipate
in
War and Peace
- It suits you so badly—all this debauchery, dissipation, and the rest of it!†
Chpt 1 *
- Pierre was staying at Prince Vasili Kuragin's and sharing the dissipated life of his son Anatole, the son whom they were planning to reform by marrying him to Prince Andrew's sister.†
Chpt 1
- Then, as happens to people of weak character, he desired so passionately once more to enjoy that dissipation he was so accustomed to that he decided to go.†
Chpt 1
- His life meanwhile continued as before, with the same infatuations and dissipations.†
Chpt 6
- Dolokhov, who had reappeared that year in Moscow after his exile and his Persian adventures, and was leading a life of luxury, gambling, and dissipation, associated with his old Petersburg comrade Kuragin and made use of him for his own ends.†
Chpt 8
- Pierre still went into society, drank as much and led the same idle and dissipated life, because besides the hours he spent at the Rostovs' there were other hours he had to spend somehow, and the habits and acquaintances he had made in Moscow formed a current that bore him along irresistibly.†
Chpt 9
- It was indicative of dissipation and the exercise of authority.†
Chpt 9
- "Yes, she is right," thought the old princess, all her convictions dissipated by the appearance of His Highness.†
Chpt 11
- He had sought it in philanthropy, in Freemasonry, in the dissipations of town life, in wine, in heroic feats of self-sacrifice, and in romantic love for Natasha; he had sought it by reasoning—and all these quests and experiments had failed him.†
Chpt 13
- He attended to army affairs reluctantly, left everything to his generals, and while awaiting the Emperor's arrival led a dissipated life.†
Chpt 15
- On his last day, sobbing, he asked her and his absent son to forgive him for having dissipated their property—that being the chief fault of which he was conscious.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(dissipate) to gradually disappear; or to gradually waste