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    dissipative
    [ˈdisəˌpādiv]
    definition
    1. adjective form of dissipate
    dis·si·pate
    [ˈdisəˌpāt]
    verb
    dissipate (verb) · dissipates (third person present) · dissipated (past tense) · dissipated (past participle) · dissipating (present participle)
    1. (with reference to a feeling or other intangible thing) disappear or cause to disappear:
      "the concern she'd felt for him had wholly dissipated" · "he wanted to dissipate his anger"
      • disperse or scatter:
        "the cloud of smoke dissipated"
    2. squander or fritter away (money, energy, or resources):
      "he had dissipated his entire fortune"
      • physics
        (be dissipated)
        cause (energy) to be lost, typically by converting it to heat:
        "no power is dissipated in this sort of control element"
    Origin
    late Middle English: from Latin dissipat- ‘scattered’, from the verb dissipare, from dis- ‘apart, widely’ + supare ‘to throw’.
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    verb
    1. (with reference to a feeling or other intangible thing) disappear or cause to disappear:
      disappear
      vanish
      evaporate
      dissolve
      dematerialize
      disperse
      scatter
      drive away
      dispel
      banish
      quell
      allay
      check
      evanesce
      melt away
      melt into thin air
      be dispelled
      Opposite:
      grow
      develop
    2. squander or fritter away (money, energy, or resources):
      squander
      misspend
      waste
      throw away
      lavish
      expend
      exhaust
      drain
      deplete
      burn (up)
      use up
      consume
      run through
      go through
      lose
      blow
      splurge
      blue
      piss away
      fritter (away)
      make poor use of
      be prodigal with
      spend recklessly/freely
      spend like water
      throw around like confetti
      pour/throw down the drain
      spend money as if it grows on trees
      spend money as if there were no tomorrow
      spend money as if it were going out of style/fashion
      Opposite:
      save
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