dissipating

verbexpend, spend
verbdisappear

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verb expend, spend

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Word Origin & History

early 15c., from Latin dissipatus, past participle of dissipare "to spread abroad, scatter, disperse; squander, disintegrate," from dis- "apart" (see dis-) + supare "to throw, scatter," from PIE *swep- "to throw, sling, cast" (cf. Lithuanian supu "to swing, rock," Old Church Slavonic supo "to strew"). Related: Dissipated; dissipates; dissipating.

Example Sentences for dissipating

The scene steadied; the whiteness was dissipating like mist in summer.

Over us, the barrage curtain was dissipating, sight and sound coming in to us.

The last word had been that the two had grounded and that the weather front was dissipating.

I did not mind his dissipating my own fortune; the money is nothing to me.

"Dissipating hard, I suppose you mean," said the doctor with a smile.

Instead of dissipating his anxiety, this experiment does but increase it.

We spend our money for the purpose of dissipating our capital.

She supposed him attending to business in Dartwell, but, instead, Guy was dissipating.

Melting, dissipating in the light like a fog before sunshine.

You've got some hot material in the water but it's dissipating fast.

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