dissolve
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
dissolve (dissolves, present participle dissolving; past and past participle dissolved)
- (transitive) To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding.
- Antonyms: establish, found
- The ruling party or coalition sometimes dissolves parliament early when the polls are favorable, hoping to reconvene with a larger majority.
- (transitive) To destroy, make disappear.
- (transitive) To liquify, melt into a fluid.
- Synonyms: melt, formelt
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene ii]:
- as if the world were all dissolved to tears
- (intransitive) To be melted, changed into a fluid.
- (chemistry, transitive) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or gas.
- (chemistry, intransitive) To be disintegrated by such immersion.
- (transitive) To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The Merry VViues of VVindsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act V, scene v]:
- Nothing can dissolve us.
- (transitive) To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
- Down fell the duke, his joints dissolved asunder.
- 1776, The Declaration of Independence
- For one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another.
- (law, transitive) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.
- to dissolve an injunction
- (cinematography, intransitive) To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in.
- Synonyms: fade out
- (intransitive) To resolve itself as by dissolution.
- (obsolete) To solve; to clear up; to resolve.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, A Dream of Fair Women
- dissolved the mystery
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Daniel 5:16 ↗:
- Make interpretations and dissolve doubts.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, A Dream of Fair Women
- To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
- Angels dissolved in hallelujahs lie.
dissolve (plural dissolves)
- (cinematography) a form of film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next
- Synonyms: fade out
- Italian: dissolvenza
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