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Words related to dissipation

Related / Similar Words: waste, wastefulness, profligacy, dissolution, licentiousness

Definition:

useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly; "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"; "mindless dissipation of natural resources";

dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure;

breaking up and scattering by dispersion; "the dissipation of the mist";

Hyponyms: boondoggle, waste of effort, waste of energy, waste of material, waste of money, waste of time, extravagance, prodigality, lavishness, highlife, high life, squandering

Derivational Morphology: fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away, waste, blow, squander, consume, ware, disperse, dispel, break up, scatter, spread out

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