dissipate

Other forms of dissipate

past tense

dissipated·

present participle

dissipating·

third person

dissipates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dissipate

What does dissipate mean?

dissipate means "to cause to separate and go in different directions". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dissipate?

dissipate has 3 syllables: dis-si-pate. The stress falls on "dis". In IPA it is /ˈdɪsəˌpeɪt/.

What is another word for dissipate?

Close synonyms include disperse, dispel, break up, scatter, disperse. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dissipate a common word?

dissipate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with dissipate?

7 words rhyme with dissipate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.