dissolve.
To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding.
Meaning & usage
To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding.
The ruling party or coalition sometimes dissolves parliament early when the polls are favorable, hoping to reconvene with a larger majority.
To destroy, make disappear.
To liquify, melt into a fluid.
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 dissolve an injunction
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 solve; to clear up; to resolve.
To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
To separate a ligature into its component letters.
Where this word comes from
Recorded since c. 1374 (displacing Old English toliesan) as Middle English dissolven, from Latin dissolvere (“to loosen up, break apart”) but with the sense from Anglo-Norman dissoldre (variant of Old French dissoudre), itself from dis- (“apart”) + solvere (“to loose, loosen”). By surface analysis, dis- + solve.
a form of film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next
Where this word comes from
Recorded since c. 1374 (displacing Old English toliesan) as Middle English dissolven, from Latin dissolvere (“to loosen up, break apart”) but with the sense from Anglo-Norman dissoldre (variant of Old French dissoudre), itself from dis- (“apart”) + solvere (“to loose, loosen”). By surface analysis, dis- + solve.
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