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Airborne radiation dissipates over time and distance.dissipates = gradually disappears
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She dissipated her inheritance as she indulged in lavish spending and extravagant parties.dissipated = gradually wasted
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Everyone is frightened right now, but the fear will eventually dissipate.dissipate = gradually disappear
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Slowly the voices outside dissipate down the road. (source)
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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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All I could do was stand there and wait for it to dissipate.† (source)
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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.
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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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My confusion dissipates as I run.† (source)dissipates = gradually wastes; or gradually disappears
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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)
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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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When the visions dissipated and she finished her first page, Papa winked at her.† (source)dissipated = gradually disappeared; or gradually wasted
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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)
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Dissipation and what I suspected was malnutrition had taken a toll.† (source)
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