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dissolved

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dis·solve  (d-zlv)
v. dis·solved, dis·solv·ing, dis·solves
v.tr.
1. To cause to pass into solution: dissolve salt in water.
2. To reduce (solid matter) to liquid form; melt.
3. To cause to disappear or vanish; dispel.
4. To break into component parts; disintegrate.
5. To bring to an end by or as if by breaking up; terminate.
6. To dismiss (a legislative body, for example): dissolved parliament and called for new elections.
7. To cause to break down emotionally or psychologically; upset.
8. To cause to lose definition; blur; confuse: "Morality has finally been dissolved in pity" Leslie Fiedler.
9. Law To annul; abrogate.
v.intr.
1. To pass into solution.
2. To become liquid; melt.
3. To break up or disperse.
4. To become disintegrated; disappear.
5. To be overcome emotionally or psychologically: I dissolved into helpless laughter.
6. To lose clarity or definition; fade away.
7. To shift shots in a motion-picture film or videotape by having one shot fade out while the next appears behind it and grows clearer as the first one dims.
n.
A transition in a motion-picture film or videotape made by fading out one shot while the next one grows clearer. Also called lap dissolve.

[Middle English dissolven, from Latin dissolvere : dis-, dis- + solvere, to release; see leu- in Indo-European roots.]

dis·solva·ble adj.
dis·solver n.
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Adj.1.dissolved - (of solid matter) reduced to a liquid form; "add the dissolved gelatin"
liquified, melted, liquid - changed from a solid to a liquid state; "rivers filled to overflowing by melted snow"

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And what is the difference, if a state is dissolved at once by such violent means, or if it gradually so alters in process of time as to be no longer the same constitution?
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
A sketch in gray and red dissolved into a moblike body of men who galloped like wild horses.
 
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