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  • Slowly the voices outside dissipate down the road.  (source)
  • The spirits made muffled hisses as they dissipated, like the air let out of tires.  (source)
    dissipated = gradually disappeared
  • The smokestack and the ominous black curl emerging from it, dissipating against the bright blue sky, reminded her of something.  (source)
    dissipating = gradually disappearing
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  • Presently a breeze dissipated the cloud, and I descended upon the glacier.  (source)
    dissipated = dispersed (made it gradually vanish)
  • All I could do was stand there and wait for it to dissipate.†  (source)
  • And I almost said, She buried it in the woods out by the soccer field, but I realized that the Colonel didn't know, that she never took him to the edge of the woods and told him to dig for buried treasure, that she and I had shared that alone, and I kept it for myself like a keepsake, as if sharing the memory might lead to its dissipation.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • In other bills he had a lot of other names and done other wonderful things, like finding water and gold with a "divining-rod," "dissipating witch spells," and so on.  (source)
    dissipating = making them disappear
  • My confusion dissipates as I run.†  (source)
    dissipates = gradually wastes; or gradually disappears
  • He could have become a circus manager, a theatrical director, a dealer in antiquities, an importer of Italian silks, a secretary in the Palace or the Cathedral, a dealer in provisions for the army, a speculator in houses and farms, a merchant in dissipations and pleasures.†  (source)
  • and before it can do that, contenteth it selfe with the small refreshments of such things as coole of a time, till (if Nature be strong enough) it break at last the contumacy of the parts obstructed, and dissipateth the venome into sweat;†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She dissipateth" in older English, today we say "She dissipates."
  • When the visions dissipated and she finished her first page, Papa winked at her.†  (source)
    dissipated = gradually disappeared; or gradually wasted
  • I said things like "I don't know how Dad got that idea" and "Dad must have misheard me," hoping that if I rejected their percipience, they would simply dissipate.†  (source)
  • Dissipation and what I suspected was malnutrition had taken a toll.†  (source)
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