Dissipate *** (續：大人物 君王 宗教 毀滅 浪費 單字大集合)

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–verb (used with object) 

1. to scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel. 

2. to spend or use wastefully 

or 

extravagantly; squander; deplete: 



to dissipate one's [talents] 

to dissipate a [fortune] on high living.  



–verb (used without object) 

3. to become scattered or dispersed; be dispelled; disintegrate: The sun shone and the [mist] dissipated. 

4. to indulge in extravagant, intemperate, or dissolute pleasure.  



—Synonyms 

1. See scatter. 3. disappear, vanish.



Scatter, dispel, disperse, dissipate imply separating and driving something away so that its original form disappears.



To scatter is to separate something tangible into parts at random, and drive these in different directions: The [wind] scattered [leaves] all over the lawn. 



To dispel is to drive away or scatter usually intangible things so that they vanish or cease to exist: Photographs of the race dispelled all [doubts] as to which horse won. 



To disperse is usually to cause a compact or organized tangible body to separate or scatter in different directions, to be reassembled if desired: Tear gas dispersed the [mob]. 



To dissipate is usually to scatter by dissolving or reducing to small atoms or parts that cannot be brought together again: He dissipated his [money] and his [energy] in useless activities. 



—Antonyms 

1, 3. unite.





 

By that point, however, [whatever]ingenuity the film might have offered has long since dissipated, and the sequences that put Jackman and McGregor together become fewer and further between. Nor does their potential battle of wits develop enough to yield many [fireworks], beyond whatever natural charisma the two possess. 





 　

In 1961, "Revolutionary Road" must have seemed an especially corrosive indictment [of] the postwar suburban "solution," and [of] the hopeful souls who followed its call out of the city in search of some acceptable balance between rough rural essentials and urban opportunity and buzz. 



In the novel’s close notice Frank is a deluded, dissipated [bore] who imagines himself "as an intense, nicotinestained Jean-Paul-Sartre sort of man," but is merely an adulterer [spicing] his talk with literary references while following work so stultifying and meaningless that he even laughs at himself.





。大量

。少許 Deluge 



。大人物

。君王

Lollapalooza



。宗教

Hierophant



。毀滅

mayhem 

sabotage 

saboteur

They say they've seen parachutists land up in the hills. I ain't worried about them. Saboteurs is what worries me.

annihilation

deracinate

desiccate

decimate 

but that Australia is about to be [decimated] by a massive, apocalyptic tidal wave.

Don't be fooled by the apocalyptic [infernos], decimated [landscapes], and [roving] bands of [gaunt], [hallow]-eyed cannibals,



juggernaut

highly popular expose of the junk food [juggernaut] in the United States

jinx

whammy

The drought and the high price of fertilizer are a [double] whammy to farmers. 

New controls will put the whammy on irresponsible spending. 

Rachel Weisz is riveting as the manipulative Evelyn, whose motivation provides the type of concluding [emotional] whammy that LaBute favors.



cf. abettor

abattoir

The scenes of the [abattoir] are dismaying in the tradition of Upton Sinclair’s "The Jungle," but the movie is halfhearted, fragmentary, unachieved. 

Franju, best known for the 1949 [abattoir] doc Blood of the Beasts, was a surrealist fellow traveler and Eyes Without a Face has a beyond-[lurid] premise.

shamble(s)

to turn cities into shamble[s]

Her desk is [a] shamble[s]  

cf. carnal

carnage

The irony is that, under the [carnage], "Eastern Promises" is an old-fashioned picture,

Anderson is equally strong on some of the film's visual concepts, [namely] a twisted [carnival] ride filled with highway [carnage],





。浪費

splurge 

orgy

an orgy of [killing]

stint

When you make this recipe, don't stint [on] the butter.

a [two]-year stint in the army.

spendthrift 

Doesn’t take much to read between the lines and see that the reason Russell and the producers are unhappy is based [in] similar spendthrift thinking.



squander 

If we squander our fossil fuel[s], we threaten [civilization].

prodigal

He has a mind [prodigal] [of] ideas.

She has always been [prodigal] [of] [with] her money.

The audience [was] prodigal [in] its applause.

[a] prodigal is a [spendthrift]. 

wanton

Swapping the [wanton] excesses of the 1980s New York art world 

for the [puritanical] confines of the Castro regime, 

Julian Schnabel continues to [tread] the myth-rich, landmine-ridden [terrain] of the [martyred]-artist biopic.

You know how pale and wanton thrillful comes death in the strange hour unannounced, unplanned for like a scary, over-friendly guest you've brought to bed.



prodigal

(wastefulness, improvidence, reckless)

a prodigal [extravagance]

profuse

(overemotionalism, exageration)

profuse in his [apologies]

There's a huge, ugly [gouge] all the way up her shin, and she's [bleeding] profusely.

ravish 

lavish

(generosity, openhandedness)

lavish [hospitality]

munificence

liberal in giving, generous

a munificent [bequest].  



scatter

tangible into random

The [wind] scattered [leaves] all over the lawn. 

dispel

intangible to vanish

Photographs of the race dispelled all [doubts] as to which horse won. 

disperse

to be reassembled, if desired

Tear gas dispersed the [mob].

dissipate

can not be brought together again

He dissipated his [money] and his [energy] in useless activities. 

Their story would be more enjoyable in a more [polished] film, but it has a power that is not dissipated by this one's weaknesses.

















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