Dissipating

verb

verb ·4 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of dissipate form-of, gerund, participle, present

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self-indulgent

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"Time, it is true, absence, change of scene and new faces, might probably have destroyed the illusion in her instance, as it has done in many others; but her residence remained solitary, and her mind without those means of dissipating her pleasing visions."

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