DISSIPATING Synonyms: 202 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in wasting

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noun

as in squandering

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verb

present participle of dissipate

as in dispersing

to cause (members of a group) to move widely apart dissipated the enemy forces with unremitting artillery fire

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as in spending

to use up carelessly dissipated the family fortune in reckless business ventures

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as in dissolving

to go off in different directions and cease to exist as a body or unified whole the fog should dissipate once the sun comes out in full force

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Recent Examples of dissipating

Noun

Between these times, every stage moves from fullness and being a light to finding your light dissipating and toward the crescent. — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 5 Jan. 2026 Hubble’s more recent imagery shows the dissipating remains of the smash encounter. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 18 Dec. 2025

Verb

The storm then roared into Alabama with tropical-force winds before dissipating farther north. — CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026 Warm yet uplifting with a strong hit of black tea, Still Bloom's cardomom, sesame, and orange top notes hit like a shot of caffeine before dissipating into a mellow, comforting underbelly of musk, rose and cedarwood, to name a few. — ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026 After dissipating, some of the storm’s remnant moisture then traveled into parts of New Mexico and West Texas, bringing heavy rainfall to the region. — Newsroom Meteorologist, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Sep. 2026 Rinsing also cools down the seed, dissipating heat that builds up from the sprouting seeds. — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 14 Sep. 2026 Dull spells and lulls will crop up, building like waves, peaking, crashing, then dissipating. — Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 11 Sep. 2026 As a result, each shell collapses sequentially, gradually absorbing and dissipating the kinetic energy. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026 Others are content simply to provoke a few smiles, before dissipating like smoke with the very next breeze. — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026 The Cage felt like a useful spot to work out any resentments lingering in your psyche, all the old grievances dissipating with the clang of aluminum on cowhide. — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for dissipating

Adjective

Supporters say the measure aims to cut wasteful government spending by requiring audits for new state special taxes.

— Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Congressional Republicans got rid of the EV tax credit last year after long arguing that markets, not the government, should influence what Americans drive, and dubbed the tax credit wasteful spending.

— Willa Rubin, NPR, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of wasteful

Noun

An everyman figure squeezing every bit of talent from his frame, a boy who returned to working as a fisherman after the first squandering of his football dream, from a family that could not always afford to buy him studded boots.

— Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 19 June 2026
Watching students use that platform to walk out on the CEO of one of the world’s most consequential companies clearly struck him as a squandering of rare privilege.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 15 June 2026

Definition of squandering

Verb

In contrast, peregrine falcons that breed in Alaska migrate almost directly south, dispersing across the Americas to wintering grounds that extend as far as southern South America.

— Amy L. Scarpignato, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026
Israeli troops later arrived in Abu Falah and drove up to the village after dispersing the crowd in the olive groves.

— Sam Metz, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of dispersing

Verb

After arriving at the hospital and spending nearly an hour with hospital staff filling out paperwork, I was handed another form accepting financial responsibility.

— Scott Levenson, New York Daily News, 18 Oct. 2026
Teams are tight-knit, spending practically every moment together from Spring Training through October in what can be described as a 162-game marathon.

— Don Riddell, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of spending

Verb

The home’s dissolving interior boundary suits an artist who has spent her career questioning where humans fit within the vastness of space and time.

— Jane Horowitz, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
Researchers are now chasing even easier formats, including oral dissolving films, sometimes called thin films or sublingual films, that dissolve in the mouth and release medication without any injection.

— Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of dissolving

Adjective

Bournemouth were profligate, despite scoring through Marcus Tavernier and forcing a Malick Thiaw own goal, with multiple first-half chances wasted.

— Chris Waugh, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
This shift occasioned the profligate production that would mark her oeuvre, with Kusama going on to make hundreds of paintings in which forests of lines and dots cradled variously floral and phallic figures.

— News Desk, Artforum, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of profligate

Verb

Atlanta reached the Finals for the first time since 2013 and after losing in its previous three appearances in the championship round, will be trying for their first as well.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026
Tim Boyd San Juan Capistrano I’m sure there are Dodgers fans unhappy about losing to the Brewers.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of losing

Verb

Desperately seeking Europe’s ‘own resources’ Still, the negotiations are gathering pace just as ambitions for the EU in an uncertain world are on the rise but room for fiscal maneuver in many countries is disappearing.

— Lorne Cook, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026
Short-term, month-to-month rentals (the kind that often show up on a rent roll in a town that runs on rotating crews) were disappearing.

— Ken Lundin, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026

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