Usually means: Break down into a solution.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. dissolve: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dissolve: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dissolve: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dissolve: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dissolve: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dissolve, dissolve: Wordnik
  7. dissolve: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dissolve: Wiktionary
  9. dissolve: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dissolve: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dissolve: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dissolve: Dictionary.com
  13. dissolve: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dissolve: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dissolve (Absofacto song), Dissolve (band), Dissolve (film), Dissolve (filmmaking), Dissolve (song), Dissolve, The Dissolve (album), The Dissolve: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dissolve: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dissolve: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dissolve: Rhymezone
  19. dissolve: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dissolve: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. dissolve: Free Dictionary
  22. dissolve: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. dissolve: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. dissolve: Linda's Culinary Dictionary
  2. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. dissolve: Legal dictionary
  3. dissolve: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. dissolve: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. dissolve: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. dissolve: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DISSOLVE: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dissolve: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  5. dissolve: Television: Critical Methods and Applications
  6. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See dissolvable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding.
verb:  (transitive) To destroy, make disappear.
verb:  (transitive) To liquify, melt into a fluid.
verb:  (intransitive) To be melted, changed into a fluid.
verb:  (physical chemistry) (transitive) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or other material.
verb:  (physical chemistry) (intransitive) To be disintegrated by such immersion.
verb:  (transitive) To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.
verb:  (transitive) To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
verb:  (law, transitive) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.
verb:  (cinematography, intransitive) To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in.
verb:  (intransitive) To resolve itself as by dissolution.
verb:  (obsolete) To solve; to clear up; to resolve.
verb:  To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
noun:  (cinematography) a form of film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next

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