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Dissolving   /dɪzˈɔlvɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Dissolve  v. t.  (past & past part. dissolved; pres. part. dissolving)  
1.
To separate into competent parts; to disorganize; to break up; hence, to bring to an end by separating the parts, sundering a relation, etc.; to terminate; to destroy; to deprive of force; as, to dissolve a partnership; to dissolve Parliament. "Lest his ungoverned rage dissolve the life."
2.
To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to disunite; to sunder; to loosen; to undo; to separate. "Nothing can dissolve us." "Down fell the duke, his joints dissolved asunder." "For one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another."
3.
To convert into a liquid by means of heat, moisture, etc.,; to melt; to liquefy; to soften. "As if the world were all dissolved to tears."
4.
To solve; to clear up; to resolve. "Dissolved the mystery." "Make interpretations and dissolve doubts."
5.
To relax by pleasure; to make powerless. "Angels dissolved in hallelujahs lie."
6.
(Law) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release; as, to dissolve an injunction.
Synonyms: See Adjourn.


Dissolve  v. i.  
1.
To waste away; to be dissipated; to be decomposed or broken up.
2.
To become fluid; to be melted; to be liquefied. "A figure Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat Dissolves to water, and doth lose his form."
3.
To fade away; to fall to nothing; to lose power. "The charm dissolves apace."


adjective
Dissolving  adj.  Melting; breaking up; vanishing.
Dissolving view, a picture which grows dim and is gradually replaced by another on the same field; an effect produced by magic lanterns.





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"Dissolving" Quotes from Famous Books



... Paris, transcribed formulae as abstract, as remote from tangible things as the x and y of algebraic equations. These men all worked—the apologue of the quadratic equation held my mind—moving their symbols here and there, extracting roots, dissolving close-knit phrases into factors, cancelling, simplifying, but always dealing with symbols meaningless, unreal in themselves. Behind them was Ascher, Ascher and I suppose Stutz, who expressed realities in formulae, and, when the sums were done, extracted realities from ...
— Gossamer - 1915 • George A. Birmingham
... maid alarms; He flew enraptured to her yielding arms, And lost, dissolving in a softer flame, His distant empire and the fire of fame. At length, retiring thro the homeward field, Their glowing souls to cooler converse yield; O'er various scenes of blissful life they ran, When thus the warrior ...
— The Columbiad • Joel Barlow
... word believed to have been invented by Paracelsus), a liquid, much sought after by the alchemists, having the power of dissolving gold and every other substance, which it was supposed would possess ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... it important to take a wife only from their own family, and the nearer the better. Only they except the first grade [of kinship], for they always considered that as a dissolving impediment. But what marriages were those in which the contract was not indissoluble, and could be dissolved by the woman, if she were to blame, merely returning the dowry! If the husband were to blame, it was not returned; and the marriage could be repudiated ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 • Francisco Colin
... federal system had become manifest, and the bonds which connected this vast continent were dissolving, we have seen him the chief of those patriots who formed for us a constitution which, by preserving the union, will, I trust, substantiate and perpetuate those blessings which our revolution had promised ...
— The Life of George Washington, Vol. 5 (of 5) • John Marshall


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