Sample Sentences for
dissipate
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    The spirits made muffled hisses as they dissipated, like the air let out of tires.  (source)
    dissipated = gradually disappeared
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    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)
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    When the visions dissipated and she finished her first page, Papa winked at her.†  (source)
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    Slowly the voices outside dissipate down the road.  (source)
    dissipate = gradually disappear
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    Dissipation and what I suspected was malnutrition had taken a toll.†  (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.
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    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
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    Her burgeoning anger dissipates, replaced by concern.†  (source)
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    His liking for Mozart's music brought him sometimes to an opera or a concert: these were the only dissipations of his life.†  (source)
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    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."
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    Her heart pounded as the fury dissipated.†  (source)
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    All I could do was stand there and wait for it to dissipate.†  (source)
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    I admit I relish it, this lick of dissipation.†  (source)
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