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Dissipate

To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored.

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Manner of action 3

Break 76% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Disband 76% connected

To loose the bands of; to set free; to disunite; to scatter; to disperse; to break up the organization of; especially, to dismiss from military servi…

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Volley 76% connected

A flight of missiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a number of small arms.

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Consume 76% connected

To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

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Divide 76% connected

To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.

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Live 76% connected

To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation fo…

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Part 76% connected

One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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Separate 76% connected

To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

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Split 76% connected

of Split

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Squander 76% connected

To scatter; to disperse.

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Ware 76% connected

Wore.

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Waste 76% connected

Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

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Dissipation 74% connected

The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.

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Dissipation 74% connected

The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.

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Profligacy 74% connected

The quality of state of being profligate; a profligate or very vicious course of life; a state of being abandoned in moral principle and in vice; dis…

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Profligacy 74% connected

The quality of state of being profligate; a profligate or very vicious course of life; a state of being abandoned in moral principle and in vice; dis…

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Consume 72% connected

To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

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Deplete 72% connected

To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.

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Eat 72% connected

of Eat

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Exhaust 72% connected

To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

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Expend 72% connected

To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend mon…

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Use 72% connected

The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to…

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Dispel 92% connected

To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish; to clear away; to banish; to dissipate; as, to dispel a cloud, vapors, cares, doubts, illusion…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Disperse 92% connected

To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations.

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Fool 92% connected

A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool.

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Fritter 92% connected

A small quantity of batter, fried in boiling lard or in a frying pan. Fritters are of various kinds, named from the substance inclosed in the batter;…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Scatter 92% connected

To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Shoot 92% connected

An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artifi…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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