dissipated

• “That the moral capital of all three parties has been dissipated is not lost on the public, whose contempt for the political process has grown.”

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• “Another story was that a certain dissipated youth of the community, going home one Saturday night, or rather Sunday morning, from some unhallowed orgy, was pursued by a lamb of fire, with its head cut off and hanging by a strip of skin or flame.”

  The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career

• “At the approach of the squat man he sprang to his feet, but a phrase dissipated his apprehension and he nodded toward a door.”

  The Drums of Jeopardy

• “The treaty terms dissipated public elation in the days following the Armistice, when hopes that Allied victory in “the war to end all wars” would result in eternal peace.”

  Simon & Schuster: Between War and Peace

• “Most traders didn't believe it, and the notion dissipated when the market plunged again.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Dow Ends

• “The lone, thin word dissipated with the smoke, and naught remained of Emilio the Corinthian.”

  Conan The Unconquered

• “When successfully roasted, the raw vegetable taste is entirely dissipated, which is not the ease if insufficiently done.”

  The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.

• “Except for short periods, he was never what is known as dissipated, and he struggled desperately against his weakness, -- an unequal struggle, since the craving was inherited, and fostered by environment, circumstances, and temperament.”

  Selections from Poe

• “The voice of Edward calling him by name dissipated all alarm, and in another minute he was in the arms of his brother and sisters.”

  The Children of the New Forest

• “But the article and the summary both use the phrase "non-equilibrium" which suggests the existence of heat energy in excess of what is naturally dissipated, which is, gosh, the source of almost all the power that we use, in one form or another.”

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