0 present 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.
One of her greatest disappointments was the dissolving of her second marriage after her husband had an affair with a younger woman.
I will argue that globalisation and neo-liberalism have been identified as two of the core forces in the process of dissolving the public.
In dissolving the so-called voting paradox, one could offer either a teamwork dissolution or -at the other extreme-an invisible-hand dissolution.
