verb
- To cause to separate and go in different directions.
- usage: "She waved her hand and scattered the crowds"
- Move away from each other.
- usage: "The crowds dispersed"; "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached";
- synonyms: disperse, dissipate, scatter, spread out
- Spend frivolously and unwisely.
- usage: "Fritter away one's inheritance"
- synonyms: fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away
- Live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption.
- synonyms: dissipate
adjective
- Unrestrained by convention or morality.
- usage: "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
- synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast
- Preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance.
- usage: "led a dissipated life"; "a betting man"; "a card-playing son of a bitch"; "a gambling fool"; "sporting gents and their ladies"
- synonyms: betting, card-playing, sporting
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