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There can be no dissimulation between honest people.<br />

dissipate v. 1 scatter, spread (out), disperse, be dispelled, diffuse;<br />

disseminate, sow, distribute; break up: The crowd had<br />

dissipated by noon. 2 spread thin, evaporate, vanish,<br />

disappear, vaporize, peter out, diminish: By the time we were<br />

ready to go, the clouds had dissipated. 3 squander, waste,<br />

fritter away, throw away, burn up, use up, exhaust, run through:<br />

By the time he was twenty, he had dissipated a huge fortune. 4<br />

revel, carouse, party, sow one's wild oats, burn the candle at<br />

both ends, roister, make merry, debauch, go on a spree: Before<br />

their marriage, he was seen dissipating in the fleshpots of<br />

Europe.<br />

dissipation<br />

n. 1 squandering, waste, wastefulness, profligacy, abandon,<br />

abandonment, self-indulgence, self-gratification,<br />

overindulgence, intemperance, hedonism, fast or high living,<br />

dolce vita, voluptuousness, sensualism, sybaritism,<br />

dissoluteness, dissolution, excess(es), wantonness, debauchery,<br />

carousing, prodigality, recklessness, extravagance, rakishness:<br />

Owing to my dissipation, I had become an alcoholic vagrant. 2<br />

disappearance, dispersion, dispersal, diffusion, scattering,<br />

vanishing: The dissipation of the tear-gas was rapid in the<br />

strong breeze. 3 distraction, amusement, diversion,<br />

entertainment: Reading, once a dissipation, had become an<br />

obsession.<br />

dissociate<br />

v. separate, cut off, sever, disassociate, disjoin, disconnect,<br />

abstract, disengage, detach, isolate, distance, break off<br />

(from), break up (with), divorce, set apart, segregate: I have<br />

carefully dissociated myself from any political party.<br />

dissolute adj. dissipated, debauched, abandoned, corrupt, degenerate,<br />

rakish, profligate, wanton, rakehell, intemperate, incontinent,<br />

loose, licentious, overindulgent, carousing, self-indulgent,<br />

hedonistic, pleasure-bound, immoral, amoral, libidinous,<br />

unrestrained, depraved: He has paid dearly for his dissolute<br />

life.<br />

dissolution<br />

n. 1 disintegration, separation, breakup, breakdown,

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