Both Uses of
dissipate
in
Gone with the Wind
- Drink and dissipation had done their work on the coin-clean profile and now it was no longer the head of a young pagan prince on new-minted gold but a decadent, tired Caesar on copper debased by long usage.†
Chpt 5.63
- What it was she did not know but she listened desperately, her eyes on his brown face, hoping to hear words that would dissipate her fears.†
Chpt 5.63 *
Definition:
to gradually disappear; or to gradually waste