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Meaning of 'dissolve' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Dissolve [ v. i.]
- To waste away; to be dissipated; to be decomposed or broken up.
- To become fluid; to be melted; to be liquefied.
- To fade away; to fall to nothing; to lose power.
2 . Dissolve [ v. t.]
- 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.
- To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to disunite; to sunder; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
- To convert into a liquid by means of heat, moisture, etc.,; to melt; to liquefy; to soften.
- To solve; to clear up; to resolve.
- To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
- To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release; as, to dissolve an injunction.

Meaning of 'dissolve' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . dissolve [ v]
Meaning (1):
- become or cause to become soft or liquid
Example in sentence:
  • dethaw the meat;
  • The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase;
  • The heat melted the wax;
  • the ice cream melted;
  • the ice thawed;
  • The sun melted the ice
Meaning (2):
- cause to fade away
Example in sentence:
  • dissolve a shot or a picture
Meaning (3):
- lose control emotionally
Example in sentence:
  • She dissolved into tears when she heard that she had lost all her savings in the pyramid scheme
Meaning (4):
- bring the association of to an end or cause to break up
Example in sentence:
  • The decree officially dissolved the marriage;
  • the judge dissolved the tobacco company
Meaning (5):
- come to an end
Example in sentence:
  • The heat wave finally broke yesterday;
  • The tobacco monopoly broke up;
  • Their marriage dissolved
Meaning (6):
- cause to lose control emotionally
Example in sentence:
  • The news dissolved her into tears
Meaning (7):
- stop functioning or cohering as a unit
Example in sentence:
  • The political wing of the party dissolved after much internal fighting
Meaning (8):
- declare void
Example in sentence:
  • The President dissolved the parliament and called for new elections
Meaning (9):
- become weaker
Example in sentence:
  • The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days;
  • The sound faded out
Meaning (10):
- cause to go into a solution
Example in sentence:
  • The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water
Meaning (11):
- pass into a solution
Example in sentence:
  • The sugar quickly dissolved in the coffee

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