Dissolve /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Dissolved; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.

   Make interpretations and dissolve doubts.

5. To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.

   Angels dissolved in hallelujahs lie.

6. To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release; as, to dissolve an injunction. (Law)

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.