different between dissipate vs strew

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dissipatus, past participle of dissipare, also written dissupare (“to scatter, disperse, demolish, destroy, squander, dissipate”), from dis- (“apart”) + supare (“to throw”), also in comp. insipare (“to throw into”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?s?pe?t/

Verb

dissipate (third-person singular simple present dissipates, present participle dissipating, simple past and past participle dissipated)

1. (transitive) To drive away, disperse.
   • August 1773, James Cook, journal entry

     I soon dissipated his fears.

   • 1817, William Hazlitt, The Round Table

     The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy.

2. (transitive) To use up or waste; squander.
   • 1679-1715, Gilbert Burnet, History of the Reformation

     The vast wealth […] was in three years dissipated.

   • 1931, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Babylon Revisited

     So much for the effort and ingenuity of Montmartre. All the catering to vice and waste was on an utterly childish scale, and he suddenly realized the meaning of the word "dissipate"—to dissipate into thin air; to make nothing out of something.
3. (intransitive) To vanish by dispersion.
4. (physics) To cause energy to be lost through its conversion to heat.
5. (intransitive, colloquial, dated) To be dissolute in conduct.

Related terms

• dissipation

Translations

Further reading

• dissipate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• dissipate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “dissipate”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Italian

Verb

dissipate

1. second-person plural present indicative of dissipare
2. second-person plural imperative of dissipare
3. feminine plural of dissipato

Latin

Verb

dissip?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dissip?

English

Alternative forms

• strow, straw (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English strewen, strawen, streowen, from Old English strewian, str?awian, str?owian (“to strew, scatter”), from Proto-Germanic *strawjan? (“to strew”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread, scatter”). Cognate with Scots strow, straw (“to strew”), West Frisian streauwe (“to strew”), Dutch strooien (“to strew, scatter, sprinkle”), German streuen (“to strew, scatter”), Swedish strö (“to strew”), Icelandic strá (“to strew”), Norwegian Nynorsk strå (“to strew”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /st?u?/?
• (US) IPA^(key): /st?u/
• Rhymes: -u?

Verb

strew (third-person singular simple present strews, present participle strewing, simple past strewed, past participle strewn or strewed)

1. (archaic except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner.

   to strew sand over a floor

   • c. 1595,, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, act 5, scene 3

     Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew.

   • And strewed his mangled limbs about the field.

   • 1880, Benjamin Disraeli, Endymion

     On a principal table a desk was open and many papers strewn about.

2. (archaic except strewn) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered.

   Leaves strewed the ground.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, Prothalamion

     The snow which does the top of Pindus strew.
3. (transitive, archaic) To spread abroad; to disseminate.

Synonyms

• scatter, sprinkle

Derived terms

• bestrew
• strewable
• strewage
• strewments
• strewnfield

Related terms

• strain
• streusel

Translations

Anagrams

• Trews, trews, werst, wrest

Middle English

Noun

strew

1. Alternative form of straw

Yola

Noun

strew

1. Alternative form of stre