0 past simple and past participle of dissolve
1 (of a solid) to be absorbed by a liquid, especially when mixed, or (of a liquid) to absorb a solid:
2 to end an official organization or a legal arrangement:
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.
Organic compounds dissolved in the ocean were embedded in these crusts.
A later submergence of the dissolved planes led to the infill of the potholes by thin layers of growth-aligned crystals.
The hollow spaces left when the creatures dissolved were filled with silicate in solution.
