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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



... or of beauty—which, coming whence we know not, flit before us in human life, breathe for a moment, and then depart; which, like my music, build a sudden palace in imagination; which abide for an instant and dissolve, but which memory and hope retain as a ground of aspiration—are not lost to us though they seem to die in their immediate passage. Their music has its home in the Will of God and we ...
— The Poetry Of Robert Browning • Stopford A. Brooke
... drapery, like a mantle of vapor, resembling those creations of Ossian which formed often the clouds of evening; in short, one might have believed that she had risen from the earth, and had come to dissolve under the first rays of the sun, or of the moon. The phantom disappeared for a few seconds, amidst a dark grove, which projected on the terrace the lofty trunks of large forest trees—but when she emerged from their shade, and re-entered that portion of the terrace light and brilliant, ...
— The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 • Various
... off the hand of him who in contempt of our Lord Mahomet's holy law may dare to unveil that face, and may Allah bless this union and cast into the pit of Gehenna any who shall attempt to dissolve a bond that is ...
— The Sea-Hawk • Raphael Sabatini
... this momentary ill is amply compensated by the steady prosecution of the rule, and by the peace and order, which it establishes in society. And even every individual person must find himself a gainer, on ballancing the account; since, without justice society must immediately dissolve, and every one must fall into that savage and solitary condition, which is infinitely worse than the worst situation that can possibly be supposed in society. When therefore men have had experience ...
— A Treatise of Human Nature • David Hume
... The army had for the first time acted with effect against a popular rising; the first blow had been struck on behalf of the central power against the revolution which till now had seemed about to dissolve the Austrian ...
— History of Modern Europe 1792-1878 • C. A. Fyffe


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