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Dissolving   /dɪzˈɔlvɪŋ/   Listen
Dissolving

noun
1.
The process of going into solution.  Synonym: dissolution.


Dissolve

verb
(past & past part. dissolved; pres. part. dissolving)
1.
Become weaker.  Synonyms: fade away, fade out.
2.
Cause to go into a solution.  Synonyms: break up, resolve.
3.
Come to an end.  Synonym: break up.  "The tobacco monopoly broke up"
4.
Stop functioning or cohering as a unit.  Synonym: disband.
5.
Cause to lose control emotionally.
6.
Lose control emotionally.
7.
Cause to fade away.
8.
Pass into a solution.
9.
Become or cause to become soft or liquid.  Synonyms: dethaw, melt, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw.  "The ice thawed" , "The ice cream melted" , "The heat melted the wax" , "The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase" , "Dethaw the meat"
10.
Bring the association of to an end or cause to break up.  Synonym: break up.  "The judge dissolved the tobacco company"
11.
Declare void.  Synonym: dismiss.



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"Dissolving" Quotes from Famous Books



... out of said county but within said judicial district and in all other cases within forty days (exclusive of the day of service), and defend the above-entitled action. This action is brought to recover a judgment and decree of this court forever severing and dissolving the bonds of matrimony now and heretofore existing between the parties hereto upon the grounds of desertion, adultery and extreme cruelty ...
— Reno - A Book of Short Stories and Information • Lilyan Stratton
... strong Archangel of the Elohim! Earth's hollow want is prophet of his coming: In the low murmur of her famished cry, And heavy sobs breathed up despairingly, Ye hear the near invisible humming Of his wide wings that fan the lurid sky Into cool ripples of new life and hope, While far in its dissolving ether ope Deeps beyond deeps, of sapphire calm, to cheer With Sabbath gleams ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 18, April, 1859 - [Date last updated: August 7, 2005] • Various
... am decidedly of opinion that a majority of our people would not consider the occurrence of the event referred to as sufficient ground for dissolving the union of the States. For which reason I do not suppose that our Legislature, which will meet on the 19th prox., will take any steps in that direction—such, for instance, as the calling of ...
— Abraham Lincoln, A History, Volume 2 • John George Nicolay and John Hay
... four years ago, upon a reconsideration of the whole subject, I became convinced that there was no necessity for dissolving the 'union between the northern and southern states'; that to seek this dissolution was no part of my duty as an abolitionist; that to abstain from voting, was to refuse to exercise a legitimate and powerful means for abolishing slavery; and that the constitution of the United States not only contained ...
— History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) - Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens • George Washington Williams
... the world-old want in their eyes— Hurt hot eyes that do not sleep enough... Striving with infinite effort, Frustrate yet ever pursuing The great white Liberty, Trailing her dissolving glory over each hard-won barricade— ...
— The Ghetto and Other Poems • Lola Ridge


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