Vocabulary
Dissipate
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
(with reference to a feeling or emotion) disappear or cause to disappear.
Urdu meaning
الگ کرنا، منتشر کرنا، ضائع کرنا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Where did the $203bn disappear and dissipate?
- The GB government, perhaps underestimating the determination of the locals, assumed the protest would dissipate in the harsh cold.
- T is more than just a little bit concerning that the uncertainty over the election schedule refuses to dissipate, despite stern warnings from the Supreme Court.
- With the paranoia refusing to dissipate, doubts regarding the election are expected to linger.
- There cannot be a more telling example of a policy that only privileges the elite while the public pays the price.With the rise in petroleum prices and more painful measures ahead, public discontent is likely to intensify, not dissipate.
Synonyms
disappear, vanish, evaporate, dissolve, melt away, melt into thin air, be dispelled
Curator example
“the concern she’d felt for him had wholly dissipated”
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