as in degraded
having or showing lowered moral character or standards
the dissipated and drunken son of the wealthiest man in the county
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as in dispersed
to cause (members of a group) to move widely apart
dissipated the enemy forces with unremitting artillery fire
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as in spent
to use up carelessly
dissipated the family fortune in reckless business ventures
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as in disappeared
to go off in different directions and cease to exist as a body or unified whole
the fog should dissipate once the sun comes out in full force
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Recent Examples of dissipated
Michael Stein, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2022
White’s dissipated dark side was no secret to his friends.
—Nancy Bilyeau, Town & Country, 1 Feb. 2022
The break is so complete that there was little left to tell, just a few years in which Capote becomes a dissipated caricature of himself on the way to a lonely and pitiful death.
—al, 11 Oct. 2021
Mark Medina, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026
The high concentrations dissipated after about eight months and no longer present a threat.
—Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026
The dark clouds have dissipated from Orcutt’s guitar.
—Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 2 June 2026
But its popularity didn’t spread beyond the northern Spanish city until the domestic unrest that had blighted the Basque region dissipated in the 2010s.
—Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 1 June 2026
Other activists, including Gardner, stayed behind as the confrontation eventually dissipated under the police supervision.
—Jackson Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 June 2026
That lead quickly dissipated when Miami’s implosion in the bottom half of the first inning — on a combination of timely Florida hits, erraticness from Ciscar and shoddy Hurricanes defense — allowed the Gators to score six runs.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 31 May 2026
In their simulations, seismic waves were most intense in the low-lying areas abutting San Francisco Bay and and in Livermore Valley, while energy dissipated in Berkeley and the Oakland hills.
—Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 30 May 2026
By the final weeks of the campaign, the positivity from early in the season had dissipated.
—Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 27 May 2026
Adjective
Doctors deal each day with tales of the worried, sullen, skeptical, dissipated, desperate.
—Michael Stein, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2022
White’s dissipated dark side was no secret to his friends.
—Nancy Bilyeau, Town & Country, 1 Feb. 2022
The break is so complete that there was little left to tell, just a few years in which Capote becomes a dissipated caricature of himself on the way to a lonely and pitiful death.
—al, 11 Oct. 2021
Verb
That optimism dissipated quickly.
—Mark Medina, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026
The high concentrations dissipated after about eight months and no longer present a threat.
—Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026
The dark clouds have dissipated from Orcutt’s guitar.
—Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 2 June 2026
But its popularity didn’t spread beyond the northern Spanish city until the domestic unrest that had blighted the Basque region dissipated in the 2010s.
—Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 1 June 2026
Other activists, including Gardner, stayed behind as the confrontation eventually dissipated under the police supervision.
—Jackson Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 June 2026
That lead quickly dissipated when Miami’s implosion in the bottom half of the first inning — on a combination of timely Florida hits, erraticness from Ciscar and shoddy Hurricanes defense — allowed the Gators to score six runs.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 31 May 2026
In their simulations, seismic waves were most intense in the low-lying areas abutting San Francisco Bay and and in Livermore Valley, while energy dissipated in Berkeley and the Oakland hills.
—Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 30 May 2026
By the final weeks of the campaign, the positivity from early in the season had dissipated.
—Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 27 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dissipated
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Even when degraded, enzymes have stable backbones that might be capable of catalyzing reactions, said Sudha Rajamani, an astrobiologist at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune who wasn’t involved in the study.—
Siddhant Pusdekar,
Quanta Magazine,
1 June 2026
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According to the company, QTT enables highly secure and resilient position, navigation, and timing (PNT) services, helping maintain accurate timing and synchronization even when traditional GPS and radio-frequency signals are unavailable, degraded, or intentionally jammed.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
30 May 2026
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Attackers also burned down one of the patient-isolation tents hastily erected on the hospital grounds, before soldiers dispersed them by firing warning shots.—
Emmet Livingstone,
NPR,
28 May 2026
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The officers, aided by officers from South Chicago Heights and other neighboring jurisdictions, Cook County and Will County sheriff’s deputies and K-9 units, dispersed the teens, who were blocking the 3300 block of Chicago Road and moving into a parking lot on the street’s east side, police said.—
Dennis Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
27 May 2026
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Toomey spent an afternoon with Hulst in his final weeks.—
Scott M. Reid,
Oc Register,
30 May 2026
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Crow and Creepy, the call signs of two soldiers from the 24th Mechanized Brigade, have spent 344 and 334 days respectively, non-stop, in frontline dugouts.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
30 May 2026
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Eight people, some of whom were related, disappeared on Sunday while traveling from Daule to Milagro, about 30 miles south of Babahoyo.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
3 June 2026
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Protagonist Jo’s mother disappeared when Jo was a teen, tainting her daughter with the stain of possible witchcraft.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2026
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Fujimori is linked to the authoritarian and corrupt legacy of the government of her late father, Alberto Fujimori, in the 1990s.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 June 2026
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Of course, all of this convenient acquiescence will sound familiar in the United States, where our own Congress and Department of Justice have been nothing if not servile to a brazenly corrupt executive.—
Daniel Alarcón,
New Yorker,
4 June 2026
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The Portland Trail Blazers took them to five games, the Minnesota Timberwolves (an ailing team) took them to six games, and the Thunder lost in seven.—
David Troy OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
3 June 2026
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Past Republican efforts to quickly override state AI laws appear to have lost momentum, setting up a complex future battle.—
Eleanor Mueller,
semafor.com,
3 June 2026
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On Junun, percussion often dissolved into the fort’s ambient resonance.—
Arman Khan,
Pitchfork,
1 June 2026
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The pulp was then dissolved and spun at the Thuringian Institute of Textile and Plastics Research in Germany, and then sent to Portuguese yarn manufacturer Inovafil to create yarns meeting the specifications of brand partners H&M Group, C&A and Reformation.—
Jennifer Bringle,
Footwear News,
1 June 2026
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One night in April when the boy playing Orlando was home sick and Jamie was waiting for Adele in their private coital chamber, Bromley kept her late to work on the scene where Orlando courts Rosalind playing Ganymede playing Rosalind.—
Jonathan Franzen,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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Recently, she’s begun to feel physically sick due to everything going on in her life and is sharing with us that she’s been struggling with getting up, eating and other simple, everyday things.—
Harriette Cole,
Mercury News,
1 June 2026
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“Dissipated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissipated. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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