dissipated

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DISSIPATED, participle passive 1. Scattered; dispersed; wasted; consumed; squandered. 2. adjective Loose; irregular; given to extravagance in the expenditure of property; devoted to pleasure and vice; as a dissipated man; a dissipated life.
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