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| dissolves | |
| 1. n. plural of dissolve |  |
| dissolve | |
| 1. v. To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding | |
| The ruling party or coalition sometimes dissolves parliament early when the polls are favorable, hoping to reconvene with a larger majority | |
| 2. v. To destroy, make disappear | |
| 3. v. To liquify, melt into a fluid | |
| 4. v. (intransitive) To be melted, changed into a fluid | |
| 5. v. (chemistry, transitive) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or gas. | |
| 6. v. (chemistry, intransitive) To be disintegrated by such immersion. | |
| 7. v. To disperse, drive apart a group of persons. | |
| 8. v. To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate. | |
| 9. v. (legal, transitive) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release. | |
| to dissolve an injunction | |
| 10. v. (cinematography, intransitive) To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in. | |
| 11. v. (intransitive) To resolve itself as by dissolution | |
| 12. v. (obsolete) To solve; to clear up; to resolve. | |
| 13. v. To relax by pleasure; to make powerless. | |
| 14. n. (cinematography) A form of film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next. | |
