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dissipation [ˌdɪsɪˈpeɪʃən] n 1. the act of dissipating or condition of being dissipated 2. unrestrained indulgence in physical pleasures, esp alcohol 3. excessive expenditure; wastefulness 4. amusement; diversion
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dissipation noun 1. dispersal, scattering, vanishing, disappearance, disintegration, dissolution, dissemination the dissipation of heat 2. waste, spending, squandering, blowing (slang), consumption, throwing away, misuse, frittering away, misspending the dissipation of my wealth 3. debauchery, excess, indulgence, abandonment, drunkenness, profligacy, intemperance, wantonness, dissoluteness Her face was a revelation of age and dissipation. Translations dissipation [ˌdɪsɪˈpeɪʃən] N 1. (= act of dispelling) → disipación f; (= waste) → derroche m, desperdicio m 2. (= debauchery) → disipación f, libertinaje m dissipation [ˌdɪsɪˈpeɪʃən] n (= dispersal) [heat, smoke] → dissipation f (= calming) [tension, anger] → apaisement m (= wasting) [energy] → gaspillage m; [efforts] → dispersion f; [money] → gaspillage m; [wealth] → dilapidation f (literary) (= debauchery) → débauche f dissipation n (= dispersal: of doubts, fears) → Zerstreuung f dissipation [ˌdɪsɪˈpeɪʃ/ən] n (frm) (of fears) → dissolvimento; (of money, fortune, effort) → dissipazione f; (debauchery) → dissolutezza dissipation [ˌdɪsɪˈpeɪʃ/ən] n (frm) (of fears) → dissolvimento; (of money, fortune, effort) → dissipazione f; (debauchery) → dissolutezza How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| But the period of my dissipation would end and I always felt very sick afterwards. The getting of your anchor was a noisy operation on board a merchant ship of yesterday - an inspiring, joyous noise, as if, with the emblem of hope, the ship's company expected to drag up out of the depths, each man all his personal hopes into the reach of a securing hand - the hope of home, the hope of rest, of liberty, of dissipation, of hard pleasure, following the hard endurance of many days between sky and water. Her neglect of her husband, her encouragement of other men, her extravagance and dissipation, were so gross and notorious that no one could be ignorant of them at the time, nor can now have forgotten them. |
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