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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
dissipate .
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Examples
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She frowns as the pain dissipates, only returning when she pokes her finger into her arm.
Frustration (1/2) amberfocus 2008
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As soon as my brothers board the airship, the chain dissipates.
365 tomorrows » 2006 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2006
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Funny how friction 'dissipates' entropy from macroscale to microscale, always.
New Images Suggest More Recent Lakes on Mars | Universe Today 2010
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A related problem is that heat invariably dissipates, meaning that it will always be difficult to turn diffuse sources of energy, like wind, into concentrated ones.
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And frankly, then that just kind of dissipates, and it seems like not much has changed, as Dennis O'Dell was talking about from the United Mine Workers of America, from the safety and health director.
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So that revenue kinds of tails off and the dilutive impact of that margin kind of dissipates at the end of the second year.
unknown title 2011
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The smoke rises toward the tops of the trees and dissipates in the dark blue sky.
Primitive Instincts: Where modern man can learn to live like his ancestors Tom Bartlett 2010
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The smoke rises toward the tops of the trees and dissipates in the dark blue sky.
Primitive Instincts: Where modern man can learn to live like his ancestors Tom Bartlett 2010
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That's when that gnawing sense that you have to get home... or else, really sets in and the novelty of being in a combat zone dissipates, only to be replaced by routine and more routine, sporadically interrupted by rockets.
SPC Tanangachi Mfuni: "All I Want for Christmas Is...": A Deployed Soldier's Holiday List SPC Tanangachi Mfuni 2011
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The smoke rises toward the tops of the trees and dissipates in the dark blue sky.
Primitive Instincts: Where modern man can learn to live like his ancestors Tom Bartlett 2010
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