Dissolve

Quick meaning: Dissolve is a verb meaning (transitive) To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding.

Meaning

(transitive) To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To destroy, make disappear.
2. (transitive) To liquify, melt into a fluid.
3. (intransitive) To be melted, changed into a fluid.
4. (physical chemistry, transitive) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or other material.
5. (physical chemistry, intransitive) To be disintegrated by such immersion.
6. (transitive) To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.
7. (transitive) To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.

Example Sentences

Nothing can dissolve us.

to dissolve an injunction

as if the world were all dissolved to tears

Down fell the duke, his joints dissolved asunder.

Word Forms

• dissolves
• dissolving
• dissolved

Synonyms for dissolve

Depending on context, synonyms include melt, formelt, fade out, break up, disband, fade away.

Antonyms for dissolve

Common opposites include establish, found.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include disband, break up, fade away, fade out, disbandment, abolish.

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