Definition of "dissolve"

dissolve

/dɪˈzɒlv/

verb
third-person singular simple present dissolves, present participle dissolving, simple past and past participle dissolved
1. (transitive) To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding.
2. (transitive) To destroy, make disappear.
3. (transitive) To liquify, melt into a fluid.
  Quotations
  as if the world were all dissolved to tears
  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: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene ii]
4. (intransitive) To be melted, changed into a fluid.
5. (chemistry, transitive) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or gas.
6. (chemistry, intransitive) To be disintegrated by such immersion.
7. (transitive) To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.
  Quotations
  Nothing can dissolve us.
  c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene v]
8. (transitive) To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
  Quotations
  Down fell the duke, his joints dissolved asunder.
  1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes
  For one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another.
  1776, The Declaration of Independence
9. (law, transitive) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.
  Quotations
  Jon Snow is the legitimate heir to the Targaryen line, by the old rules, of the old government, which was dissolved and reshaped by King Robert.
  2017 August 13, Brandon Nowalk, “Oldtown offers one last game-changing secret as Game Of Thrones goes behind enemy lines (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club‎
10. (cinematography, intransitive) To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in.
11. (intransitive) To resolve itself as by dissolution.
12. (obsolete) To solve; to clear up; to resolve.
  Quotations
  dissolved the mystery
  1842, Alfred Tennyson, “A Dream of Fair Women”, in Poems. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Edward Moxon, […]
  Make interpretations and dissolve doubts.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Daniel 5:16
13. To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
  Quotations
  Seraph and Cherub, careleſs of their charge, / And wanton, in full eaſe now live at large: / Unguarded leave the paſſes of the Sky; / And all diſſolv'd in Hallelujahs lye.
  1674 (date written), John Dryden, “The Authors Apology for Heroique Poetry; and Poetique Licence”, in The State of Innocence, and Fall of Man: An Opera. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1677, page 29
noun
plural dissolves
1. (cinematography) a form of film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next
  Quotations
  While most of the film is done in medium and long shots (connected with dissolves and wipes which lend a lovely period effect)
  1986 April 19, Michael Bronski, “Two Views on Desert Hearts: Sexy? or simply Slow?”, in Gay Community News, page 9

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