Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective changed from a solid to a liquid state by increase of temperature; melted. Opposite of
unmelted . - adjective sundered by divorce, separation, or desertion; -- of social bonds and relations.
- adjective diffused into a liquid of differing chemical composition, forming a stable solution; -- said of chemical substances.
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- adjective that has been disintegrated in a
solvent - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
dissolve .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of solid matter) reduced to a liquid form
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Examples
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The title dissolved to a book-lined study, a slow zoom to a close-up of a distinguished host in soft hat and satin ascot, turning a giant globe with one paw.
Writer Ferrets: Chasing the Muse Richard Bach 2002
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The title dissolved to a book-lined study, a slow zoom to a close-up of a distinguished host in soft hat and satin ascot, turning a giant globe with one paw.
Writer Ferrets: Chasing the Muse Richard Bach 2002
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The title dissolved to a book-lined study, a slow zoom to a close-up of a distinguished host in soft hat and satin ascot, turning a giant globe with one paw.
Writer Ferrets: Chasing the Muse Richard Bach 2002
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Question 2: What is the mass balance equation for the quantity of CO2 to remain dissolved in solution for all the waterbodies of the world?
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Then she pressed herself closer to him, murmuring something in Gaelic, and his expression dissolved in shock.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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Their pre-war support for deposing Saddam Hussein dissolved very quickly, and their pessimism made the Left happy.
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How submerged sea ice could ever evolve evades me since ice usually floats in dissolved ice (water).
Think Progress » Limbaugh Distorts Numbers To Downplay Global Warming Science 2006
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How submerged sea ice could ever evolve evades me since ice usually floats in dissolved ice (water).
Think Progress » Limbaugh Distorts Numbers To Downplay Global Warming Science 2006
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Tommy glared at Jack again, but after a few seconds the expression dissolved, and he laughed.
Lunatics Denton, Bradley 1996
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This relates, for example, to the ferments which occur in dissolved state in the secretions which are discharged into the digestive system and exert such a great influence there.
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