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Dissipate
"Dissipate" in a Sentence (12 examples)
The crowd began to dissipate.
The fog began to dissipate.
The fog started to dissipate about ten o'clock.
On Earth, the forces of gravity and friction dissipate the kinetic energy of a moving body, causing it to stop.
Let's not dissipate our efforts on pointless and time-wasting schemes.
August 1773, James Cook, journal entry I soon dissipated his fears.
The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy.
The vast wealth […] was in three years dissipated.
So much for the effort and ingenuity of Montmartre. All the catering to vice and waste was on an utterly childish scale, and he suddenly realized the meaning of the word "dissipate"—to dissipate into thin air; to make nothing out of something.
If he prefers the bar he can exchange views with a Major de Wildman of Lord knew whose army, who calls himself King Farouk's equerry and claims to have a private telephone link to Cairo so that he can report the winning numbers and take royal orders inspired by soothsayers on how to dissipate the wealth of Egypt.
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The traction motors serve as generators when dynamic braking is used, the generated output being dissipated in fan-cooled resistance banks mounted in a removable roof section.
Regenerative braking is retained. Like rheostatic braking, this uses the traction motors to provide a braking effort, but the current developed is fed back into the overhead catenary rather than dissipated through resistance banks.
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