MEANING
1. To cause a substance to become incorporated into a liquid, or to become fluid itself.
2. To formally bring an organization, agreement, partnership, or assembly to an end.
Use it for
Use for physical change, disappearance, or gradual loss of form.Show a solid losing its form or disappearing into liquid.
Words that belong together
- dissolve in water
- dissolve a substance
- dissolve completely
- dissolve a committee
- dissolve a partnership
- dissolve an agreement
On the page
The salt dissolved slowly in the pot of rainwater.
The director dissolved the committee before it could vote.
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Opposite meanings
Word forms
- Base
- dissolve
- Past tense
- dissolved
- Past participle
- dissolved
- Present participle
- dissolving
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- dissolve
- Present continuous
- am/is/are dissolving
- Present perfect
- have/has dissolved
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been dissolving
- Past
- dissolved
- Past continuous
- was/were dissolving
- Past perfect
- had dissolved
- Past perfect continuous
- had been dissolving
- Future
- will dissolve
- Future continuous
- will be dissolving
- Future perfect
- will have dissolved
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been dissolving
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Usage notes
The physical sense concerns a material mixing into liquid; it is distinct from ending an organization or agreement. Sense 2: The institutional sense is transitive and formal; the subject is usually an authorized person or body.
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