Definition of "dissolve" in English

verb

1. (transitive) To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding.

   • The ruling party or coalition sometimes dissolves parliament early when the polls are favorable, hoping to reconvene with a larger majority.

2. (transitive) To destroy, make disappear.

3. (transitive) To liquify, melt into a fluid.

4. (intransitive) To be melted, changed into a fluid.

5. (physical chemistry, transitive) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or other material.

6. (physical chemistry, intransitive) To be disintegrated by such immersion.

7. (transitive) To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.

8. (transitive) To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.

9. (law, transitive) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.

   • to dissolve an injunction

10. (cinematography, intransitive) To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in.

11. (intransitive) To resolve itself as by dissolution.

12. (obsolete) To solve; to clear up; to resolve.

13. To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.

14. (typography) To separate a ligature into its component letters.

noun

1. (cinematography) a form of film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next