Disperse vs. Dissipate — What's the Difference?

Disperse was a Christian rock band from Southern Indiana active from 1996 to 2004.

To break apart or attenuate to the point of disappearing

To drive off or scatter in different directions

To drive away; cause to vanish

To strew or distribute widely

To spend or expend intemperately or wastefully; squander

To cause to attenuate and disappear

To use up, especially recklessly; exhaust

To separate (light) into spectral rays.

To cause to lose (energy, such as heat) irreversibly.

To distribute (particles) evenly throughout a medium.

To be attenuated and vanish

To separate and move in different directions; scatter

To become dispelled; vanish

To attenuate and vanish; dissipate

(transitive) To drive away, disperse.

To scatter in different directions.

(transitive) To use up or waste; squander.

To break up and disappear; to dissipate.

(intransitive) To vanish by dispersion.

To disseminate.

(physics) To cause energy to be lost through its conversion to heat.

To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.

To be dissolute in conduct.

To distribute throughout.

To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; - used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored.

Scattered or spread out.

To destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use; to squander.

To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations.

To separate into parts and disappear; to waste away; to scatter; to disperse; to vanish; as, a fog or cloud gradually dissipates before the rays or heat of the sun; the heat of a body dissipates.

To scatter, so as to cause to vanish; to dissipate; as, to disperse vapors.

To be extravagant, wasteful, or dissolute in the pursuit of pleasure; to engage in dissipation.

To separate; to go or move into different parts; to vanish; as, the company dispersed at ten o'clock; the clouds disperse.

To cause to separate and go in different directions;

To distribute wealth; to share one's abundance with others.

Move away from each other;

Distribute loosely;

Spend frivolously and unwisely;

To cause to separate and go in different directions;

Live a life or pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption

Move away from each other;

Cause to separate;

Cause to become widely known;