DISSIPATE

vt to destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use; to squander.

2. dissipate ·vi to be extravagant, wasteful, or dissolute in the pursuit of pleasure; to engage in dissipation.

3. dissipate ·vt to scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear;

— used ·esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored.

4. dissipate ·vi to separate into parts and disappear; to waste away; to scatter; to disperse; to vanish; as, a fog or cloud gradually dissipates before the rays or heat of the sun; the heat of a body dissipates.