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The synonyms of “Dissolve” are: fade away, fade out, break up, resolve, dethaw, melt, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw, dismiss, disband, go into solution, become a solution, break down, disappear, vanish, melt away, evaporate, disperse, dissipate, disintegrate, burst into, break into, collapse into, break down into, disestablish, split up, separate, scatter, go their separate ways, go in different directions, disjoin, annul, nullify, void
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “dissolve” as a verb can have the following definitions:
annul | Declare invalid. The elections were annulled by the general amid renewed protests. |
become a solution | Come into existence. |
break down | Break down literally or metaphorically. |
break down into | Happen or take place. |
break into | Emerge from the surface of a body of water. |
break up | Scatter or part. |
burst into | Break open or apart suddenly and forcefully. |
collapse into | Fold or close up. |
dethaw | Become or cause to become soft or liquid. Dethaw the meat. |
disappear | Cease to be visible. The sun had disappeared. |
disband | Stop functioning or cohering as a unit. From today the choir shall be disbanded. |
disestablish | Deprive (an established church) of its status. The Anglican Church in Wales was disestablished in 1919. |
disintegrate | Lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current. The particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process. |
disjoin | Make disjoint separated or disconnected undo the joining of. They asked that their parish be disjoined from Lewis and added to Harris. |
dismiss | Declare void. The prime minister dismissed five members of his cabinet. |
disperse | Distribute loosely. The earlier mist had dispersed. |
dissipate | Move away from each other. The concern she d felt for him had wholly dissipated. |
evaporate | Change into a vapor. The militancy of earlier years had evaporated in the wake of defeat. |
fade away | Become feeble. |
fade out | Lose freshness, vigor, or vitality. |
go in different directions | Be or continue to be in a certain condition. |
go into solution | Move away from a place into another direction. |
go their separate ways | Be abolished or discarded. |
melt | Change or merge imperceptibly into (another form or state. Hundreds of actors were melting into the scene. |
melt away | Become less intense and fade away gradually. |
nullify | Make legally null and void; invalidate. Insulin can block the release of the hormone and thereby nullify the effects of training. |
resolve | (of optical or photographic equipment) separate or distinguish between (closely adjacent objects. The orange light resolved itself into four roadwork lanterns. |
scatter | Sow by scattering. Fernandez struck out 14 while scattering three hits over eight scoreless innings. |
separate | Separate into parts or portions. They were separated by the war. |
split up | Come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure. |
thaw | Make or become friendlier or more cordial. Riven began to feel his ears and toes thaw out. |
unfreeze | Make (assets) available. The 15 council members voted unanimously to unfreeze the airline s assets. |
unthaw | Thaw or cause to thaw. The flower s spring blooms indicated that the ground has unthawed. |
vanish | Cease to exist. The effect vanished when day broke. |
void | Excrete (waste matter. The Supreme court voided the statute. |
anhydrous | (of a substance, especially a crystalline compound) containing no water. |
aqueous | Like water; watery. An eerie aqueous light. |
corpse | The dead body of a human being. The corpse of a man lay there. |
crumble | A pudding made with crumble and fruit. The cookies crumbled. |
decompose | (with reference to a dead body or other organic matter) make or become rotten; decay or cause to decay. In how many ways can one decompose a number as a sum of squares. |
decomposition | (chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance. The decomposition of organic waste. |
dilution | The action of making something weaker in force, content, or value. The milk factor is greatly reduced by dilution. |
disassemble | Take (something) to pieces. The piston can be disassembled for transport. |
disband | Stop functioning or cohering as a unit. From today the choir shall be disbanded. |
disintegrate | Lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current. It has become a relatively easy matter to disintegrate almost any atom. |
dismantle | Take apart into its constituent pieces. The old regime was dismantled. |
dismember | Cut off the limbs of (a person or animal. He watched a doctor dismember the body. |
hydrate | Become hydrated and combine with water. A powerful moisturizer that hydrates the skin for up to twelve hours. |
ice | A sheet or layer of ice on the surface of water. The crowd applauded when she skated out onto the ice. |
immiscible | (chemistry, physics) incapable of mixing. Benzene is immiscible with water. |
iron | A tool or implement now or originally made of iron. She stood there ironing. |
liquefaction | The conversion of a solid or a gas into a liquid. A gas liquefaction plant. |
mangle | Press with a mangle. The car was mangled almost beyond recognition. |
melt | An act or period of melting. Place under a hot grill until the cheese has melted. |
meltwater | Water formed by the melting of snow and ice, especially from a glacier. Glacial meltwaters gathered on a thick bed of boulder clay. |
mutilate | Inflict a violent and disfiguring injury on. Most of the prisoners had been mutilated. |
oxidize | Combine chemically with oxygen. The fats in the food will oxidize turning it rancid. |
perishable | Things, especially foodstuffs, likely to decay or go bad quickly. Ballet is the most perishable of arts. |
permafrost | A thick subsurface layer of soil that remains below freezing point throughout the year, occurring chiefly in polar regions. Hilly terrain underlain by permafrost. |
snow | Snow falls. They would snow the public into believing that all was well. |
soluble | Capable of being dissolved in some solvent (usually water. The puzzle is soluble. |
solvable | Capable of being solved. Such problems are perfectly solvable. |
solvent | Something that acts to weaken or dispel a particular attitude or situation. Interest rate rises have very severe effects on normally solvent companies. |
thaw | A period of warmer weather that thaws ice and snow. A thaw in relations between the two countries. |
thawing | Warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt. The disintegration is caused by the thawing of permafrost. |
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