To Dissolve
- (transitive) To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding. Antonyms: establish, found
- (transitive) To destroy, make disappear.
- (transitive) To liquify, melt into a fluid. Synonyms: melt, formelt
- (intransitive) To be melted, changed into a fluid.
- (chemistry, transitive) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or gas.
- (chemistry, intransitive) To be disintegrated by such immersion.
- (transitive) To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.
- (transitive) To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
- (law, transitive) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.
- (cinematography, intransitive) To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in. Synonym: fade out
- (intransitive) To resolve itself as by dissolution.
- (obsolete) To solve; to clear up; to resolve.
- To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.