All 8 Uses
dissipate
in
Jane Eyre
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- She stirred herself, put back the curtain, and I saw her face, pale, wasted, but quite composed: she looked so little changed that my fear was instantly dissipated.†
p. 96.5 *dissipated = gradually disappeared; or gradually wasted
- He went to college, and he got — plucked, I think they call it: and then his uncles wanted him to be a barrister, and study the law: but he is such a dissipated young man, they will never make much of him, I think.†
p. 108.4
- Then take my word for it, — I am not a villain: you are not to suppose that — not to attribute to me any such bad eminence; but, owing, I verily believe, rather to circumstances than to my natural bent, I am a trite commonplace sinner, hackneyed in all the poor petty dissipations with which the rich and worthless try to put on life.†
p. 159.4
- I have myself — I tell it you without parable — been a worldly, dissipated, restless man; and I believe I have found the instrument for my cure in —" He paused: the birds went on carolling, the leaves lightly rustling.†
p. 253.1dissipated = gradually disappeared; or gradually wasted
- Her mind seemed wholly taken up with reminiscences of past gaiety, and aspirations after dissipations to come.†
p. 270.2
- I tried dissipation — never debauchery: that I hated, and hate.†
p. 358.8
- It was Christmas week: we took to no settled employment, but spent it in a sort of merry domestic dissipation.†
p. 455.8
- This St. John opposed; he said I did not want dissipation, I wanted employment; my present life was too purposeless, I required an aim; and, I suppose, by way of supplying deficiencies, he prolonged still further my lessons in Hindostanee, and grew more urgent in requiring their accomplishment: and I, like a fool, never thought of resisting him — I could not resist him.†
p. 461.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(dissipate) to gradually disappear; or to gradually waste
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)