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dissipate
in
Pride and Prejudice
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- In town I believe he chiefly lived, but his studying the law was a mere pretence, and being now free from all restraint, his life was a life of idleness and dissipation.†
p. 195.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(dissipate) to gradually disappear; or to gradually waste
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)