dissipate
Fade to nothing
Dissipate means to scatter or disperse until something disappears.
Fog dissipates as the sun rises.
Energy dissipates as heat.
The word often describes wasting resources or attention: He dissipated his inheritance on gambling.
A dissipated lifestyle suggests excess and indulgence—someone who has scattered their energies on pleasures rather than purpose.
Pass from visibility
- fadeLose intensity gradually
- evanesceDisappear by degrees
- dissolveDisperse into liquid
- melt awayGradually disappear completely
evaporate · dwindle · wane · ebb · subside · diminish · peter out · trail off
Cause to spread apart
- spreadTo distribute widely
- diffuseSpread thinly throughout
- disseminateSpread information widely
- strewDisperse irregularly across
sprinkle · distribute · radiate · diverge · intersperse · dispel · thin out · break up
Officially send away
- dismissSend away or reject
- scatterDistribute in random directions
- drive awayCause to retreat
- chase awayForce to depart
clear away · allay · quell · resolve · eliminate · remove · expel · eradicate
Unwanted discarded material
- fritterFried batter cake
- misspendUse wastefully or unwisely
- blowMove air forcefully
- exhaustUse up entirely
deplete · drain · consume · burn through · lavish · splurge · throw away · run through
Convert to gas
- steamHeated water's gaseous form
- boil offRemove by vaporization
- sublimateRedirect impulses constructively
- volatilizeConvert to vapor
evaporation · moisture loss · dehydrate · condense · transpire · mist · diffuse · aerosolize
disappear
Pass from visibility
melt away · evaporate · dwindle · wane · ebb · subside · diminish · peter out · trail off · recede
disperse
Cause to spread apart
- spreadTo distribute widely
- diffuseSpread thinly throughout
- disseminateSpread information widely
strew · sprinkle · distribute · radiate · diverge · intersperse · dispel · thin out · break up · scatter
banish
Officially send away
- dismissSend away or reject
- scatterDistribute in random directions
- drive awayCause to retreat
chase away · clear away · allay · quell · resolve · eliminate · remove · expel · eradicate · put to rest
waste
Unwanted discarded material
exhaust · deplete · drain · consume · burn through · lavish · splurge · throw away · run through · use up
vaporize
Convert to gas
- steamHeated water's gaseous form
- boil offRemove by vaporization
- sublimateRedirect impulses constructively
volatilize · evaporation · moisture loss · dehydrate · condense · transpire · mist · diffuse · aerosolize · gasify
- diminishingabate, decrease, diminish, dwindle, ebb
- disappearingvanish, fade, disappear, vanishing, evaporate
- weather verbsrain, snow, hail, sleet, drizzle
- depletedeplete, drain, exhaust, use up, consume
- vanishingdisappearance, vanish, vanishing, disappear, fading
- break it upstop, cease, disperse, scatter, split
dissipateconcentrate
Reduced, potent form
gather · collect · congregate · cluster · assemble
- heat dissipationTransfer of warmth outward
dissipation, dissipated, dissipating, dissipates, dissipations, dissipator