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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
abandoned, abated, ablated, attenuated, bated, belittled, broadcast, burnt up, by the board, consumed, contracted, curtailed, debauched, decreased, deflated, depleted, diffuse, diminished, discrete, dispersed, dispread, disseminated, dissolute, distributed, down the drain, drained, dropped, eaten up, effete, eroded, exhausted, expended, fallen, fast, finished, forfeit, forfeited, free, free-living, gallant, gay, gone, gone to waste, high-living, impoverished, irretrievable, less, lesser, licentious, long-lost, lost, lost to, lower, lowered, miniaturized, misspent, out the window, profligate, rakehell, rakehellish, rakehelly, rakish, reduced, retrenched, riotous, run to seed, scaled-down, scattered, shorn, shorter, shrunk, shrunken, smaller, sparse, spent, sporadic, spread, squandered, straggling, straggly, strewn, strown, unbridled, used, used up, wasted, watered-down, weakened, widespread, wild, worn, worn away, worn-out
Dictionary Results for dissipated:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
dissipated
    adj 1: unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a
           debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated
           and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [syn:
           debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated,
           dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous,
           fast]
    2: 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" [syn: dissipated, betting, card-
       playing, sporting]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dissipated \Dis"si*pa`ted\ (d[i^]s"s[i^]*p[=a]`t[e^]d), a.
   1. Squandered; scattered. "Dissipated wealth." --Johnson.
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   2. Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of
      pleasure; dissolute; intemperate.
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            A life irregular and dissipated.      --Johnson.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dissipate \dis"si*pate\ (d[i^]s"s[i^]*p[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p.
   p. Dissipated; p. pr. & vb. n. Dissipating.] [L.
   dissipatus, p. p. of dissipare; dis- + an obsolete verb
   sipare, supare. to throw.]
   1. To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear;
      -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never
      again be collected or restored.
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            Dissipated those foggy mists of error. --Selden.
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            I soon dissipated his fears.          --Cook.
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            The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate
            all intellectual energy.              --Hazlitt.
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   2. To destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use; to
      squander.
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            The vast wealth . . . was in three years dissipated.
                                                  --Bp. Burnet.

   Syn: To disperse; scatter; dispel; spend; squander; waste;
        consume; lavish.
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