Dissipate: meaning, example and synonyms
Dissipatev. To disappear or cause to disappear by scattering; to dispel.
Example
As the morning sun warmed the harbor, the dense fog gradually dissipated, revealing the fishing boats that had waited all night at anchor.
- Part of speech
- verb
- Synonyms
- disperse, dispel, scatter, vanish
- Antonyms
- gather, accumulate, concentrate, collect
- Memory tip
- Picture fog thinning: dissipate = scatter away to nothing.
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Check yourself: Dissipate in context
Once the cold front passed, the storm clouds ______ quickly, and by noon the sky over the valley was a clear, unbroken blue.
Answer: dissipated. Clouds that scatter until the sky is clear have dissipated. Vilified (defame), imputed (attribute blame) and debunked (expose as false) don't fit this context.
The mediator hoped that a shared meal would help ______ the tension between the two delegations, which had grown hostile during the morning session.
Answer: dissipate. Easing hostility so it fades away is to dissipate tension. Vilify (defame), impute (attribute blame) and encapsulate (summarize briefly) don't fit this context.