dissipated

As the strike dissipated, each side tried to take the high ground of intention and behavior: The crisis was lawlessness or it was unwarranted government overreach.

Up close and personal, the musk of the odor dissipated, and I breathed in the grounding spice of the cedar and the energizing citrus notes of the Douglas fir.

Talk of joint US-Israeli military action against Iran seems to have dissipated.

“I was really terrified to look at it,” says Tony Gilroy, but that soon dissipated.

Now, the utility is exploring it as a leading theory and also ensuring that similar idle equipment is properly grounded, so that sudden power surges can be safely dissipated into the earth.