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Definition
to gradually disappear; or to gradually waste
- I had learned early that if I interrupted him in his study I had better have something that would dissipate his anger at being disturbed.Chapter Four (2% in)
- Since that day, if I am made to wait long enough for something I dread, my nervousness dissipates into a steely boredom.Chapter Eight (23% in)
- I looked down at his shoes to dissipate my rage.Chapter Eleven (64% in)
There are no more uses of "dissipate" in Lucky by Sebold.
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