Both Uses of
dissipate
in
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
- Sunlight mingled in her hair, the grass was soft beneath her stocking feet, and they moved together so easily, dipping and turning, the tension she'd carried with her from the meeting dissipating with each step.†
p. 167.6dissipating = gradually wasting; or gradually disappearing
- Caroline paused, the wild adrenaline rush of her meeting with David Henry suddenly gone, dissipating into the spring night like mist.†
p. 252.6 *
Definition:
to gradually disappear; or to gradually waste