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Dissolving   /dɪzˈɔlvɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Dissolve  v. t.  (past & past part. dissolved; pres. part. dissolving)  
1.
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. "Lest his ungoverned rage dissolve the life."
2.
To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to disunite; to sunder; to loosen; to undo; to separate. "Nothing can dissolve us." "Down fell the duke, his joints dissolved asunder." "For one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another."
3.
To convert into a liquid by means of heat, moisture, etc.,; to melt; to liquefy; to soften. "As if the world were all dissolved to tears."
4.
To solve; to clear up; to resolve. "Dissolved the mystery." "Make interpretations and dissolve doubts."
5.
To relax by pleasure; to make powerless. "Angels dissolved in hallelujahs lie."
6.
(Law) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release; as, to dissolve an injunction.
Synonyms: See Adjourn.


Dissolve  v. i.  
1.
To waste away; to be dissipated; to be decomposed or broken up.
2.
To become fluid; to be melted; to be liquefied. "A figure Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat Dissolves to water, and doth lose his form."
3.
To fade away; to fall to nothing; to lose power. "The charm dissolves apace."


adjective
Dissolving  adj.  Melting; breaking up; vanishing.
Dissolving view, a picture which grows dim and is gradually replaced by another on the same field; an effect produced by magic lanterns.





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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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