to dissipate
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6.8
- verb
- /ˈdɪsɪpeɪt/
- Look, a toxin dissipates quickly in the air.
- begin to dissipate
- dissipate quickly
- feelings dissipate
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Watch on YouTubeYou know what fear tends to dissipate with daily action.
- You know what fear tends to dissipate with daily action.
- I'm enjoying seeing some of that noise dissipate and it'd be a little bit more signal.
- And after a week, it sort of dissipated and went away.
- Take a long time, but eventually the entire black hole dissipates back into space.
- Usually when you hear a bee, the sound dissipates as the bee flies away.
- OK, so that creates heat that needs to dissipate so that you can have your next thought.
- OK, then what is that deep non REM sleep doing to help dissipate the anxiety?
- And all the nervousness dissipates if you can flip that switch.
- Then the biggest issue of all starts to dissipate, and that is hunger, appetite, and cravings.
- All of that dissipates, disappears if you have all the time in the world.
- Mind slows down or dissipates completely or recedes.
Examples
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You know what fear tends to dissipate with daily action.
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The blurriness should dissipate in the next 24 hours, give or take.
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We have to wait for the storm to dissipate before we can get inside.
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I figure we lie low a couple days, we let the panic dissipate.
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And after a week, it sort of dissipated and went away.
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The data suggest that bacteria levels significantly dissipate between 25 and 50 yards from the discharge point.
Academic text (1994) -
Citizen confidence in the democratic system is likely to dissipate if the state neglects social and economic rights.
Academic text (1994) -
Stars will burn out, new stars will stop forming, and the cosmos will dissipate into cold, dark nothingness.
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We've got scattered reports that the storm is dissipating over North America.
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The sunlight began to dissipate as the clouds rolled in, leaving us in darkness.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To stop being seen or to no longer be there
628
1.0
To stop being seen or felt
454
1.2
To slowly become less visible, bright, or loud
392
3.0
Disappear suddenly and completely for no clear reason
147
3.7
To become less in size, importance, or value
141
3.4
Make a group of people leave or spread out
106
4.0
An effect or feeling that becomes less strong and then stops
86
3.0
To become weaker and then disappear over time
81
2.8
To move apart and cover a wider area
81
4.4
To cause people and things, like a crowd or fog, to spread over a wide area
67
4.8
To move back or become less strong
66
2.8
To become less strong little by little
52
4.8
Become less strong, as with pain, noise, or excitement
50
2.7
To make people or animals move quickly in different directions
46
4.1
Gradually become less strong until a feeling is gone
40
4.6
To make a feeling or idea go away
36
3.9
To slowly disappear or become less clear
22
6.8
To become less strong or severe and to make something do the same
9
4.2
To become quieter and then stop
5
5.9
To make something smaller gradually by cutting or wearing it away
2
4.6
Slowly get smaller in number or amount until nothing remains
2
5.6
To move back slowly, like water leaving a shore
Antonyms
How Dispersed
Surface Forms
Morphology
dissipate = dissip + ate
Although the verb ends in the familiar suffix '-ate', the stem 'dissip-' is not a standalone English word and the apparent prefix 'dis-' does not function transparently here, so learners cannot reliably infer the meaning from component parts.
Etymology
Dissipate comes from the Latin parts dis- meaning 'apart' and a root meaning 'to scatter', so it originally meant 'scatter apart'. That's why we use dissipate when fog, a crowd, or a feeling spreads out and disappears.