dissolve

dissolve is a 8-letter English word with 21 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 21 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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.
2. transitive verb. To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to disunite; to sunder; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
3. transitive verb. To convert into a liquid by means of heat, moisture, etc.,; to melt; to liquefy; to soften.
4. transitive verb. To solve; to clear up; to resolve.
5. transitive verb. To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
6. transitive verb. To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release; as, to dissolve an injunction.
7. intransitive verb. To waste away; to be dissipated; to be decomposed or broken up.
8. intransitive verb. To become fluid; to be melted; to be liquefied.
9. intransitive verb. To fade away; to fall to nothing; to lose power.
10. noun. (film) a gradual transition from one scene to the next; the next scene is gradually superimposed as the former scene fades out
11. verb. declare void

    "The President dissolved the parliament and called for new elections"

    Synonyms: dismiss

12. verb. come to an end

    "Their marriage dissolved"

    "The tobacco monopoly broke up"

13. verb. bring the association of to an end or cause to break up

    "The decree officially dissolved the marriage"

    "the judge dissolved the tobacco company"

14. verb. become or cause to become soft or liquid

    "The sun melted the ice"

    "the ice thawed"

    Synonyms: dethaw, melt, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw

15. verb. pass into a solution

    "The sugar quickly dissolved in the coffee"

16. verb. cause to go into a solution

    "The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water"

    Synonyms: resolve

17. verb. become weaker

    "The sound faded out"

18. verb. cause to fade away

    "dissolve a shot or a picture"

19. verb. lose control emotionally

    "She dissolved into tears when she heard that she had lost all her savings in the pyramid scheme"

20. verb. cause to lose control emotionally

    "The news dissolved her into tears"

21. verb. stop functioning or cohering as a unit

    "The political wing of the party dissolved after much internal fighting"

    Synonyms: disband

Synonyms

dismiss, dethaw, melt, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw, resolve, disband

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in dissolve:

voidless

Common word forms

dissolved, dissolver, dissolves, dissolving

Words from these letters

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