What part of speech is dissipating?

Dissipating can be categorized as a verb.

Advertising

Parts of speech

  • 1. dissipating is a verb, gerund of dissipate (infinitive).

Inflections

Verb

What does dissipating mean?

Definitions

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 dissipating

#   Sentence  
1. verb Time, it is true, absence, change of scene and new faces, might probably have destroyed the illusion in her instance, as it has done in many others; but her residence remained solitary, and her mind without those means of dissipating her pleasing visions.
2. verb The crowd began to dissipate.
3. verb The fog began to dissipate.
4. verb The fog started to dissipate about ten o'clock.
5. verb The crowd began to dissipate.
6. verb The fog began to dissipate.
7. verb The fog started to dissipate about ten o'clock.
Sentence  
verb
Time, it is true, absence, change of scene and new faces, might probably have destroyed the illusion in her instance, as it has done in many others; but her residence remained solitary, and her mind without those means of dissipating her pleasing visions.
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.

Advertising
Advertising