| Main Entry: | dissipate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | expend, spend |
Synonyms: |
be wasteful with, blow*, burn up, consume, deplete, dump*, fritter away, indulge oneself, kiss goodbye, lavish, misspend, misuse, run through, squander, throw away, trifle away, use up, waste |
Antonyms: |
accumulate, collect, gather, hoard, save |
| Main Entry: | dissipate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disappear |
Synonyms: |
dispel, disperse, dissolve, drive away, evanesce, evaporate, melt away, run dry, scatter, spread, vanish |
Antonyms: |
appear |
| Main Entry: | dissipated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | used up |
Synonyms: |
blown, burnt out, consumed, destroyed, exhausted, kaput, played out, scattered, spent, squandered, wasted |
Antonyms: |
accumulated, gathered, hoarded, saved, stored |
| Main Entry: | dissipated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | self-indulgent |
Synonyms: |
abandoned, corrupt, debauched, dissolute, gone bad, gone to seed, gone to the dogs, hellbent, intemperate, profligate, rakish, wicked |
Antonyms: |
conservative, unselfish, virtuous |
| Main Entry: | abandoned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | left alone, deserted |
Synonyms: |
alone, cast aside, cast away, deserted, discarded, dissipated, dropped, dumped, eighty-sixed, eliminated, empty, forgotten, forsaken, given up, godforsaken, jilted, left, left in the cold, left in the lurch, neglected, on the rocks, outcast, passed up, pigeon-holed, rejected, relinquished, shunned, side-tracked, sidelined, unoccupied, vacant, vacated |
Antonyms: |
adopted, cherished, defended, maintained, supported |
| Main Entry: | abuse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | use wrongly |
Synonyms: |
dissipate, exhaust, misemploy, mishandle, misuse, overburden, overtax, overwork, prostitute, spoil, squander, taint, waste |
| Notes: | abuse carries with it some sense of harm; misuse refers to an incorrect use that may not lead to harm to misuse is to use something wrongly, to abuse is to misuse something so badly that you damage it |
Antonyms: |
benefit, care for, esteem, prize, respect, revere |
| Main Entry: | attenuate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | weaken |
Synonyms: |
abate, constrict, contract, cripple, debilitate, deflate, disable, dissipate, enfeeble, extenuate, lessen, mitigate, sap, shrink, thin, undermine, vitiate |
Antonyms: |
expand, increase, intensify, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | blow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | use up money |
Synonyms: |
dissipate, lay out, pay out, spend, squander, waste |
Antonyms: |
save |
| Main Entry: | blow over |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disappear slowly |
Synonyms: |
cease, die down, dissipate, end, finish, fizzle out, pass, peter out, subside, vanish |
| Main Entry: | consume |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | use up |
Synonyms: |
absorb, apply, avail oneself of, deplete, devour, dissipate, dominate, drain, drivel, eat up, employ, engross, exhaust, expend, finish, finish up, fritter away, frivol away, go, go through, have recourse to, lavish, lessen, monopolize, obsess, preoccupy, profit by, put away, put to use, run out of, run through, spend, squander, throw away, trifle, utilize, vanish, wash up, waste, wear out |
Antonyms: |
accumulate, collect, gather, neglect, not use, store |