| 词汇 | dissipate |
| 释义 | dissipateWord family adjectivedissipabledissipateddissipativeadverbdissipatedlynoundissipationverbdissipate dis·si·pate /ˈdɪsəpeɪt/ verb formal 1 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]LOSE/NOT HAVE ANYMORE to gradually become less or weaker before disappearing completely, or to make something do this （使）〔某事物〕消散，消失 As he thought it over, his anger gradually dissipated. 他想明白后，怒气就渐渐消了。 Little by little, the smoke was dissipated by the breeze. 在微风的吹拂下烟雾渐渐地消散了。 2 [transitiveT]WASTE something to waste something valuable such as time, money, or energy 浪费〔时间〕；挥霍〔金钱〕；耗费 〔精力〕 His savings were soon dissipated. 他的积蓄很快就花完了。 Examples from the Corpus dissipate• Close to, the illusion of glowing feyness dissipated.• My father waited for the energy of my attack to dissipate.• The gas cloud had dissipated by late morning.• The solid nitrogen is also dissipating faster than expected.• An evaporation system is used to dissipate heat from the sun and protect the shuttle's electronics.• She had dissipated her fortune by the time she was twenty-five.• He achieved little in his work and dissipated much of his time in an uncongenial student fraternity.• Kirov's anger dissipated somewhat as he played the recording over a couple of times.• How does a person not lose him or herself when he or she dissipates such a powerful building block of humanity?• The other method is to dissipate the extra 3. 2 kilometers per second by passing through the upper atmosphere.• They dissipated their inheritance money in a very short period of time. (1400-1500) Latin dissipare, from supare “to throw” |
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