All 3 Uses
dissipate
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Washington Square, by Henry James
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- The principal thing we know about him is that he has led a life of dissipation, and has spent a fortune of his own in doing so.†
Chpt 11 *
- Mrs. Penniman took too much satisfaction in the sentimental shadows of this little drama to have, for the moment, any great interest in dissipating them.†
Chpt 15dissipating = gradually wasting; or gradually disappearing
- She had, of course, no faculty for quenching memory in dissipation; but she mingled freely in the usual gaieties of the town, and she became at last an inevitable figure at all respectable entertainments.†
Chpt 32
Definitions:
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(1)
(dissipate) to gradually disappear; or to gradually waste
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)