dissolveverb
uk/dɪˈzɒlv/us/dɪˈzɑːlv/dissolve verb (BE ABSORBED)
C2 [ I or T ] (of a solid) to be absorbed by a liquid, especially when mixed, or (of a liquid) to absorb a solid:
Dissolve two spoons of powder in warm water.
Nitric acid will dissolve most animal tissue.
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- Pour the powder into the solution and stir it gently until the powder has dissolved.
- Drop two tablets into a glass of water and leave them to dissolve.
- We have to keep stirring until all the cubes of jelly have dissolved.
- Sugar is a soluble substance, which means that it dissolves in water.
- This all-purpose fertilizer comes in the form of blue granules that dissolve easily.
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Physical & chemical processes
- addition reaction
- adiabatic
- adsorb
- advection
- alpha decay
- condensation
- degradable
- diffraction
- exothermic reaction
- impregnate
- processus
- redox
- refraction
- rehydrate
- saponification
- scald
- secretion
- suction
- the carbon cycle
- vaporize
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dissolve verb (END)
C1 [ T often passive ] to end an official organization or a legal arrangement:
Parliament has been dissolved.
Their marriage was dissolved in 1968.
[ I ] to disappear:
The tension in the office just dissolves when she walks out.
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Causing something to end
- abandon
- all good things (must) come to an end idiom
- and have done with it idiom
- be over the hump idiom
- bitter
- draw
- knock off (sth)
- lay
- lay sth to rest idiom
- lay the ghost of sth (to rest) idiom
- leave it at that idiom
- leave off (sth/doing sth)
- lift
- raise
- stone-dead
- suppression
- the curtain falls on sth idiom
- to the bitter end idiom
- top sth off
- walk
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Appearing & disappearing
Idiom(s)
dissolve into tears/laughter