dissipating

Meaning

of Dissipate

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

diffusing scattering settling disperse dissolving dissipation draining squandering wasting expending lavishing lossy disbanding dissipative misspending
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Antonyms

repertory cumulation storage acting airing venting
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Phrases with the word

heat-dissipating

Examples

Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming. Swami Vivekananda

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone, I never found the companionable as solitude. Henry David Thoreau

Dissipating a mood through overanalyzing it wastes our power. Carlos Castaneda

Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity. Rick Perry

I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad! Kathrine Switzer

Time was something that moved in fits and starts for Magnus, dissipating like mist or dragging like chains, but when Alec was here, Magnus's time seemed to fall into an easy rhythm with Alec's, like two heartbeats falling into sync. Cassandra Clare