Definition of "dissipating" [dissipating]

• Present participle of dissipate. (verb)

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• "The scattered, divergent, wavering life, -- what is this but what we call the dissipating career?"
• "At the same time, Cobbett organized the movement around parliamentary reform, and took personal credit for the fact that the system's old "divide and subjugate" strategy no longer succeeded in dissipating political resentment through futile "bickerings and divisions":"
• "The effect of them was marvellous in dissipating gloom, in reviving hope, and in inspiring confidence."