dissipate

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For the past three months, pending home sales have increased while the bloated inventory of homes waiting to be sold has begun to dissipate -- and a Twin Cities home sales report to be released today promises more of the same.

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  1. transitive verb To drive away; disperse.
  2. transitive verb To attenuate to or almost to the point of disappearing: The wind finally dissipated the smoke. See Synonyms at scatter.
  3. transitive verb To spend or expend intemperately or wastefully; squander.
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  • The robot scrambled down into the trench before the billow of gas could even dissipate, and Derec lost sight of it. —  ISAAC ASIMOV'S
  • It's a difficult conversation for everybody, but after each participant confronts the awkward moment and moves past it, you can almost see the tension dissipate -- fidgeting stops, people start making eye contact with one another, they smile at each other. —  Baltimore City Paper
  • When the clouds dissipate, the entire world will thank the Israelis (under their breath). —  Sigmund, Carl and Alfred
  • But the 11 September 2001 attacks and Iraq war caused the movement to dissipate, and its surface energy disappeared. —  open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
  • But Sorkin said Stanton's Dec. 18 order makes it "impossible" for Madoff to dissipate, assign or transfer his assets. —  Law.com - Newswire
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  1. Middle English dissipaten, from Latin dissipāre, dissipāt-.

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  1. from Latin dissipatus, past participle of dissipare, also written dissupare (later Old French dissiper, French dissiper = Spanish disipar = Portuguese dissipar = Italian dissipare), scatter, disperse, demolish, destroy, squander, dissipate, from dis-, apart, + supare, suppare (rare), throw, also in comp. insipare, throw into.
 

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