Excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures.
Useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly.
1 Serious Materials' QuietHome doors seek to put the kibosh on sound dissipation .
2 The proximity of horse-racing establishments adds to the general atmosphere of dissipation .
3 In the chief cities of the cantons, debauchery and dissipation were rife.
4 He omits his regular training and indulges in all kinds of dissipation .
5 That duty may be a hobby; it may even be a dissipation .
6 The overflow of energy lost the tendency to dissipation and became steady.
7 His entire appearance was foreign, and conveyed the idea of reckless dissipation .
8 She is ill, and will stand in need of amusement and dissipation .
9 His income was splendid; but he himself was a stranger to dissipation .
10 The result of economic dissipation to a nation is always moral decay.
11 The faces of most were heavy and dull showing marks of dissipation .
12 The beams struck the serjeant's armour, almost overloading its energy dissipation web.
13 The most effective preventive of dissipation is ample provision for wholesome recreation.
14 You required no images of terror to tear you from low dissipation .
15 Greene, Peele, and Marlowe lived lives of dissipation , and died in poverty.
16 At this season all the allurements to dissipation will be especially busy.
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Dissipation в диалектах
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