What part of speech is dissipated?

Dissipated can be categorized as a verb and an adjective.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. dissipated is a verb, past participle of dissipate (infinitive).
  • 2. dissipated is a verb, past simple of dissipate (infinitive).
  • 3. dissipated is an adjective.

Inflections

Verb

Adjective

  • Positive
    Comparative
    Superlative
  • more dissipated
    most dissipated
  • Positive: dissipated 
  • Comparative: more dissipated
  • Superlative: most dissipated

What does dissipated mean?

Definitions

Adjective

dissipated - preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance; "led a dissipated life"; "a betting man"; "a card-playing son of a bitch"; "a gambling fool"; "sporting gents and their ladies"
dissipated - unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"

Verb

dissipate - live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption
dissipate - move away from each other; "The crowds dispersed"; "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached";
dissipate - to cause to separate and go in different directions; "She waved her hand and scattered the crowds"
dissipate - spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance"

Examples of dissipated

#   Sentence  
1. adj. Led a dissipated life.
2. adj. Deplorably dissipated and degraded.
3. verb When I was very young, my father died. His younger brother, due to the vicissitudes of the times and to his own laziness, dissipated his own fortune and afterwards became a peddler of writing materials. He often came to our house, but when he came, my mother would scold him and he would be troubled.
4. verb The tornado dissipated without harm.
5. verb The fog dissipated.
6. verb Sami dissipated his rage through the use of violence.
7. verb They waited until the heat dissipated.
8. verb The clouds dissipated and the sun rose.
9. verb As the Moon’s gravity pulls on our oceans, the water is slightly heated, and that energy gets dissipated. This results in the Moon moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
10. verb The crowd began to dissipate.
11. verb The fog began to dissipate.
12. verb The fog started to dissipate about ten o'clock.
13. verb The crowd began to dissipate.
14. verb The fog began to dissipate.
15. verb The fog started to dissipate about ten o'clock.
Sentence  
adj.
Led a dissipated life.
Deplorably dissipated and degraded.
verb
When I was very young, my father died. His younger brother, due to the vicissitudes of the times and to his own laziness, dissipated his own fortune and afterwards became a peddler of writing materials. He often came to our house, but when he came, my mother would scold him and he would be troubled.
The tornado dissipated without harm.
The fog dissipated.
Sami dissipated his rage through the use of violence.
They waited until the heat dissipated.
The clouds dissipated and the sun rose.
As the Moon’s gravity pulls on our oceans, the water is slightly heated, and that energy gets dissipated. This results in the Moon moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
The crowd began to dissipate.
The fog began to dissipate.
The fog started to dissipate about ten o'clock.
The crowd began to dissipate.
The fog began to dissipate.
The fog started to dissipate about ten o'clock.

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