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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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Etymology of 'Dissolving'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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