Crossword clues for dissolving
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dissolve \Dis*solve"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dissolved; p. pr. & vb. n. Dissolving.] [L. dissolvere, dissolutum; dis- + solvere to loose, free. See Solve, and cf. Dissolute.]
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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.
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To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to disunite; to sunder; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
Nothing can dissolve us.
--Shak.Down fell the duke, his joints dissolved asunder.
--Fairfax.For one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another.
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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.
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To solve; to clear up; to resolve. ``Dissolved the mystery.''
--Tennyson.Make interpretations and dissolve doubts.
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To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
Angels dissolved in hallelujahs lie.
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(Law) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release; as, to dissolve an injunction.
Syn: See Adjourn.
Dissolving \Dis*solv"ing\, a. Melting; breaking up; vanishing. -- Dis*solv"ing*ly, adv.
Dissolving view, a picture which grows dim and is gradually replaced by another on the same field; -- an effect produced by magic lanterns.
Wiktionary
n. The act by which something dissolves. vb. (present participle of dissolve English)
WordNet
adj. causing to dissolve; "the dissolving medium is called the solvent"
n. the process of going into solution; "the dissolving of salt in water" [syn: dissolution]
Usage examples of "dissolving".
It seemed on, the edge of dissolving into grey ruin with everything else that had been steady aild safe and long established in the castle.
The water appeared like a run of black oil, as if the castle were dissolving before their eyes, melting back into the rock face.
The water lapped against her, dissolving the white silk of her gown into a transparent sheen that hugged the curves of her breasts.
Jenkins went on with his preparations, dissolving dried plasma in distilled, deaerated water, without looking up.
My son Francis prepared some artificial gastric juice, which was proved efficient by quickly dissolving fibrin, and suspended portions of the fibrocartilage in it.
They laughed and screamed and cheered and soon they were jumping up and down-and dissolving into laughter and happy tears and hugs and kisses and silly-sad smiles, and it was okay, and it was good, and for just a little while, they almost looked like normal children again.
Laneff was thrown hyperconscious, the world dissolving into a shifting miasma of selyn fields laced with jagged slices of pain.
The carcass steamed in the cold air, its soul dissolving upward, if horses had souls.
With that, Alvin reached down, pulled the lockset out of the massive door, and then pushed gently on it, making it fall away from its dissolving hinges and land with a crash on the floor outside the council room.
The blemishes were, of course, the only outside indication that the microcameras and microphones were breaking down, dissolving away.
Before he could think to wonder, he focused on the mist rising from the soaked mudbank, rising and knotting in the shadows, dissolving in the air.
But Nikko had changed it into living quarters, dissolving the cold storage units and replacing them with four separate apartments, each an intricate warren.
It is separated by dissolving the hydrates in hydrochloric acid, and oxidizing with chlorine water.
Indio peeled off his skin plast and tossed it into the can next while Tiny poured a solvent on a rag and wiped it across his scalp and chin, dissolving the fixative that glued the hair and beard to his skin.
Only the tough subdermal cartilage sheath had kept the epidermis from dissolving from the inside out, but that was beginning to liquefy, too.