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Dissolving   /dɪzˈɔlvɪŋ/   Listen
Dissolving

noun
1.
The process of going into solution.  Synonym: dissolution.


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.



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"Dissolving" Quotes from Famous Books



... under the sabres of the British cavalry which swept down from the northern end of the lines; but the pursuit was neither prolonged nor sanguinary. Sir Garnet Wolseley was satisfied with the feat of dissolving Arabi's army into an armed or unarmed rabble by a single sharp blow, and now kept horses and ...
— The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) • John Holland Rose
... thought at uncomfortable intervals of the late incipient scenes with Fanny. They had quarrels— who hadn't?—but they had usually ended in Fanny shedding some tears that warmly recemented their deep affections. This latter time, however, she had not wept—at the point of dissolving into the old surrender she had turned away from him, both in reality and metaphorically, and fallen asleep in an unexpected cold reserve. He was sorry, for it brought into their relationship a definite ...
— Cytherea • Joseph Hergesheimer
... molecules, or subtracted something from them. It was the latter. Here, then, is a force entirely different from the one which tends to reduce masses to molecules. The molecule has the same properties as the mass. Only a physical force was used in dissolving the sugar, and no heat was liberated. The acid has changed the sugar into a black mass, in fact into charcoal or carbon, and water; and heat has been produced. A chemical change has ...
— An Introduction to Chemical Science • R.P. Williams
... Such forsaking is not to be referred to the dissolving of the personal union, but to this, that God the Father gave Him up to the Passion: hence there "to forsake" means simply not to protect from persecutors. Or else He says there that He is forsaken, with reference to the prayer He had made: "Father, ...
— Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) - From the Complete American Edition • Thomas Aquinas
... senses caught only the least of them, or misinterpreted them? In that case one might be surrounded by things wholly different from what one believed them to be, awesome things which might be either exquisite or frightful. She stood horrified by this thought. The familiar world seemed to be dissolving in a mist, just as in her childhood: and through the mist she perceived immense, vague apparitions, ...
— Sacrifice • Stephen French Whitman


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