All 3 Uses of
dissipate
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- The new heir, up to the period of his accession, was reckoned rather a dissipated youth, but had at once reformed, and made himself an exceedingly respectable member of society.†
Chpt 1 *dissipated = gradually disappeared; or gradually wasted
- the severity with which he had frowned upon, and finally cast off, an expensive and dissipated son, delaying forgiveness until within the final quarter of an hour of the young man's life;†
Chpt 15
- He had shown himself wild, dissipated, addicted to low pleasures, little short of ruffianly in his propensities, and recklessly expensive, with no other resources than the bounty of his uncle.†
Chpt 21
Definition:
to gradually disappear; or to gradually waste