dissipate

One of the ways to dissipate perspiration is by convection.

The wind quickly dissipated the clouds.

The sun dissipated the mists.

a dissipated appearance

There’s no point in dissipated life.

he wanted to dissipate his anger.

advised them to quit their dissipated ways.

The news dissipated my fear.

He soon dissipated his fortune.

dissipated their energy.See Synonyms at waste

The heat had to be dissipated by elaborate cooling systems.

Don’t lead a dissipated life.

He often dissipated his energies in trivial matters.

He dissipated the family fortune in only a few years of wild living.

The office boy tried to dissipate the smoke by opening a window of the meeting room.

The wind finally dissipated the smoke.See Synonyms at scatter

a power unit equal to the power dissipated when 1 abampere flows across a potential difference of 1 abvolt (one ten-thousandth of a milliwatt).