The vast wealth . . . was in three years dissipated.
Bp. Burnet.
Syn. -- To disperse; scatter; dispel; spend; squander; waste; consume; lavish.
Dis"si*pate, v. i. 1. To separate into parts and disappear; to waste away; to scatter; to disperse; to vanish; as, a fog or cloud gradually dissipates before the rays or heat of the sun; the heat of a body dissipates.
2. To be extravagant, wasteful, or dissolute in the pursuit of pleasure; to engage in dissipation.
Dis"si*pa`ted (ds"s*p`td), a. 1. Squandered; scattered. "Dissipated wealth." Johnson.
2. Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of pleasure; dissolute; intemperate.
A life irregular and dissipated.
Johnson.
Dis`si*pa"tion (?), n. [L. dissipatio: cf. F. dissipation.] 1. The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
Without loss or dissipation of the matter.
Bacon.
The famous dissipation of mankind.
Sir M. Hale.
2. 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.
To reclaim the spendthrift from his dissipation and extravagance.
P. Henry.