All 3 Uses of
dissipate
in
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- He was known to us all as being a most cruel wretch,—a common drunkard, who had, by his reckless mismanagement and profligate dissipation, already wasted a large portion of his father's property.†
Chpt 8
- Their object seems to be, to disgust their slaves with freedom, by plunging them into the lowest depths of dissipation.†
Chpt 10 *
- Thus, when the slave asks for virtuous freedom, the cunning slaveholder, knowing his ignorance, cheats him with a dose of vicious dissipation, artfully labelled with the name of liberty.†
Chpt 10
Definition:
to gradually disappear; or to gradually waste