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Dissolve   /dɪzˈɑlv/   Listen
Dissolve

verb
(past & past part. dissolved; pres. part. dissolving)
1.
Become weaker.  Synonyms: fade away, fade out.
2.
Cause to go into a solution.  Synonyms: break up, resolve.
3.
Come to an end.  Synonym: break up.  "The tobacco monopoly broke up"
4.
Stop functioning or cohering as a unit.  Synonym: disband.
5.
Cause to lose control emotionally.
6.
Lose control emotionally.
7.
Cause to fade away.
8.
Pass into a solution.
9.
Become or cause to become soft or liquid.  Synonyms: dethaw, melt, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw.  "The ice thawed" , "The ice cream melted" , "The heat melted the wax" , "The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase" , "Dethaw the meat"
10.
Bring the association of to an end or cause to break up.  Synonym: break up.  "The judge dissolved the tobacco company"
11.
Declare void.  Synonym: dismiss.
noun
1.
(film) a gradual transition from one scene to the next; the next scene is gradually superimposed as the former scene fades out.



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"Dissolve" Quotes from Famous Books



... Bernards. I did promise to give my wife all that I have in the world, but my books, in case I should die at sea. After supper I went to Westminster Hall, and the Parliament sat till ten at night, thinking and being expected to dissolve themselves to-day, but they did not. Great talk to-night that the discontented officers did think this night to make ...
— The Diary of Samuel Pepys • Samuel Pepys

... organic-ferment or decomposing substance, containing nitrogen—something of the nature of yeast—termed pepsine, which is easily soluble in the acid just named. That gastric juice acts as a simple chemical solvent, is proved by the fact that, after death, it has been known to dissolve the stomach itself." ...
— Grappling with the Monster • T. S. Arthur

... know," said mother Thorne, indulging in another laugh, "that you must not put in but a little, and you must dissolve that in a spoonful of warm water and ...
— Divers Women • Pansy and Mrs. C.M. Livingston

... sulphate—plus the other lacking elements. The advocate of crude sulphur certainly does not know how truly criminal his advice is. It is not to be denied that at the outset sulphur will increase the crop yield. But in the end—what? The sulphur will dissolve all of the essential minerals in the soil, and in the course of four or five years they will all be leached out and it will be so barren that not even wild grass can be grown upon it. Improper fertilization may also consist ...
— Valere Aude - Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration • Louis Dechmann

... in vacuo is the most useful application of "the fact that liquids are driven off, or made to boil at lower degrees of heat when the atmospheric pressure is lessened or removed."[3] The first part of the process is to dissolve impure sugar in water, and after clarifying the solution, to boil off or evaporate the water again, that the dry crystallized mass may remain. Formerly this evaporation was performed under the atmospheric ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 565 - Vol. 20, No. 565., Saturday, September 8, 1832 • Various


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