dissipating
Slowly fading away
Dissipating is the present participle of dissipate, meaning to scatter, disperse, or gradually fade away.
Fog dissipates as the sun rises; anger dissipates over time.
The word also describes squandering resources carelessly: He spent his twenties dissipating his inheritance on parties and travel.
Something dissipating loses its concentration or intensity until little remains.
Spreading in many directions
- dispersionScattering across space
- diffusionPassive molecular spreading
- spreadingExtending over space
- disbandmentFormal termination of group
dissemination · distribution · broadcast · sprinkling · strewing · radiation · circulation · scattering
Convert to gas
- steamHeated water's gaseous form
- mistingDispersing fine water spray
- moistureSmall amounts of liquid
- evaporationLiquid turning to gas
humidity · dryness · heat · sublimation · transpiration · dehydration · desiccation · volatilization
dispersal
Spreading in many directions
- dispersionScattering across space
- diffusionPassive molecular spreading
- spreadingExtending over space
disbandment · dissemination · distribution · broadcast · sprinkling · strewing · radiation · circulation · scattering · fragmenting
diminish
To make smaller
lessen · dwindle · decrease · ebb · recede · taper · decline · atrophy · shrink · wilt
vaporize
Convert to gas
evaporation · humidity · dryness · heat · sublimation · transpiration · dehydration · desiccation · volatilization · aerosol
disappear
Pass from visibility
- fade awayDiminish gradually to nothing
- evanesceDisappear by degrees
- dematerializeCease to exist physically
dissolve · melt away · clear · lift · pass · expire · cease · end · terminate · extinguish
- depletingusing up, depleting, exhausting, draining, consuming
- Fleeting Thingsbreath, blink, wink, glance, glimpses
- vanishingdisappearance, vanish, vanishing, disappear, fading
- decliningdeclining, waning, fading, diminishing, decreasing
- dissolutionbreakup, breakdown, liquidation, wind down, disintegration
dissipatingconcentrating
Directing mental effort narrowly
gathering · collecting · converging · consolidating · coalescing
dissipatingaccumulating
Gathering in increasing quantity
building up · intensifying · conserving · preserving · growing
dissipatingappearing
Becoming visible or present
forming · materializing · emerging · arising · manifesting
- heat dissipationTransfer of warmth outward