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dissolve
/dɪˈzɑlv/
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What does dissolve mean?
verb
- To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding.
- To destroy, make disappear.
- To liquify, melt into a fluid.
More meanings (12)
verb
- To be melted, changed into a fluid.
- To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or other material.
- To be disintegrated by such immersion.
- To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.
- To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
- To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.
- To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in.
- To resolve itself as by dissolution.
- To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
- To separate a ligature into its component letters.
- (obsolete) To solve; to clear up; to resolve.
noun
- a form of film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next
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IPA pronunciation
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Why do they not dissolve it themselves,—the union between themselves and the State,—and refuse to pay their quota into its treasury?
Limestone rock is very hard and durable, but chemistry teaches us that water charged with carbonic acid gas will readily dissolve it.
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Gold-bearing quartz is pulverized, and treated with Hg to dissolve the precious metal, which is then separated from the alloy by distillation.
Most of the problems of life would dissolve and vanish if one could reduce one's needs to the frugality of a fakir.
These partly dissolve in the water and partly reach the surface, where their froth supplies the atmosphere with an excess of breathable gas.