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dissipation [‚dis·ə′pā·shən] (physics) Any loss of energy, generally by conversion into heat; quantitatively, the rate at which this loss occurs. Also known as energy dissipation. Dissipation See also Debauchery. Breitmann, Hans lax indulger. [Am. Lit.: Hans Breitmann’s Ballads] wasteful ne’er-do-well. [Br. Lit.: My Novel, Walsh Modern, 79] leads selfish, shameless life. [Fr. Lit.: M. de Camors, Walsh Modern, 84] wasteful bohemian; does not use his talents. [Br. Lit.: A Tale of Two Cities] gambles away living. [Br. Lit.: Henry Esmond] sybaritic king. [Fr. Lit.: Kings in Exile, Walsh Modern, 96] dissipated, wasteful person. [Br. Lit.: Martin Chuzzlewit] dissipated gambling baronet. [Br. Lit.: Pendennis] wasteful and ruinous; destroys several people. [Br. Lit.: Fortunes of Nigel] (1896–1940) American novelist whose works reflect a life of dissipation. [Am. Lit.: NCE, 957] citizens abandon God; give themselves up to luxury. [O.T.: Deuteronomy 32:15] dissolute merchant; displays wealth ostentatiously. [Br. Lit.: The Nabob, Brewer Handbook, 713] his extravagant bets ruin father’s wealth. [Gk. Lit.: The Clouds] squanders share of money in reckless living. [N.T.: Luke 15:13] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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But the period of my dissipation would end and I always felt very sick afterwards. The getting of your anchor was a noisy operation on board a merchant ship of yesterday - an inspiring, joyous noise, as if, with the emblem of hope, the ship's company expected to drag up out of the depths, each man all his personal hopes into the reach of a securing hand - the hope of home, the hope of rest, of liberty, of dissipation, of hard pleasure, following the hard endurance of many days between sky and water. Her neglect of her husband, her encouragement of other men, her extravagance and dissipation, were so gross and notorious that no one could be ignorant of them at the time, nor can now have forgotten them. |
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