Dissipation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DISSIPATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of dissipating
• overindulgence in sensual pleasures; dissipated living
• the squandering of money, energy, or resources
• loss of energy through its conversion into heat
• The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
• A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in vicious indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness.
• A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.
• breaking up and scattering by dispersion
• dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
• useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the action or process of dissipating; the state of being dissipated; dispersion, diffusion b archaic; dissolution, disintegration; wasteful expenditure; intemperate living; excessive drinking

Words related to DISSIPATION

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How to use DISSIPATION in a sentence

• Her face bore marks of considerable dissipation and there was a broad scar underneath her right eye.
• When, therefore, we came on deck after the dissipation of the morning mist, we found ourselves in a scene very different from that which we had left.
• White with fear, weak with dissipation, and tormented by the furies of a guilty conscience, the wretched youth looked from one to another of his aged ministers.
• Violence was an exhibition of anger and any such exhibition was dissipation of valuable energy.
• It more especially illustrates the folly of giving them long holidays in a foreign land, full of seductive dissipation.
• Dupont was now at her heels, and displaying extraordinary agility in a man of his years of dissipation and sedentary habits.
• The youth may be caught in the stream of dissipation and whirled to destruction.
• The men who did this laborious river work were rude, powerful, and lawless, and when they halted for a rest their idea of enjoyment was the coarsest and most savage dissipation.
• Not till another day dawned, did the rumbling of the carriages cease, that were conveying home the sons and daughters of dissipation.
• He returned, at last, only thirty years of age, but broken down in health, and worn out by dissipation and hardship.
• But John Norton had no passion, say they who see passion only in carnal dissipation.
• And now was he launched in fall career upon the current of fashionable dissipation, otherwise called high life.
• The place was too modest to attract the attention of people of fashion, and so quiet as to have escaped the notice of those in search of pleasure and dissipation.
• Dissipation of every sort followed, debts, from which he was never free, and the habit of drinking, which proved fatal at last.
• Colonel Rolleston thought the gentle dissipation had made his daughter quite lively.
• Here was the occasion to temper dissipation with piety, to indulge the twofold ambition of his life.
• It is a kind of dissipation in which some otherwise worthy people are prone to indulge, but altogether pernicious in the indulgence.
• The extravagance and dissipation of the officers, and the constitution generally of the army of the Bengal Presidency, were named as the subjects of his displeasure.
• He separated from his wife and children, and became the victim of dissipation.
• His weariness became a physical malady, and he was dying without daring to ask, or knowing where to procure, the price of some little necessary dissipation.
• Before he sailed, however, he has squandered a large part of his money by dissipation and gambling.
• He appeared a little concerned at my taste for dissipation, as he once termed it.
• The unhappy Marie loathed the dissipation of a life which hindered her from ever being alone with her God.
• Many months elapsed before the gentleman in question was apprehended and confronted by the tradesmen to whom he owed a period of blissful dissipation.
• In 1820 he went to Paris, where he wasted his time and money in fashionable dissipation, and produced nothing of enduring value.
• It seemed as if the whole realm were given up to idolatry and dissipation.
• My course of life hitherto has been through scenes of gentleness and peace, and I could not look on your bustle and dissipation without alarm.
• Some people can do nothing without a bee, and as the work has to be returned in the same manner, it causes a continual round of dissipation if not of something worse.
• Luxury and dissipation have since crept in, and parties assemble, now, at an hour when they formerly broke up.

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