1. Cause to go into a solution
   "The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water";
   - resolve, break up
    
2. Pass into a solution
   "The sugar quickly dissolved in the coffee"
    
3. Become or cause to become soft or liquid
   "The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase";
   - thaw, unfreeze, unthaw [N. Amer], melt
    
4. Grow less and less substantial until it disappears
   "The sound dissolved";
   - fade out, fade away
    
5. Cause to fade away
   "dissolve a shot or a picture"
    
6. Come to an end
   "Their marriage dissolved";
   - break up
    
7. Stop functioning or cohering as a unit
   "The political wing of the party dissolved after much internal fighting";
   - disband
    
8. Bring the association of to an end or cause to break up
   "The decree officially dissolved the marriage"; "the judge dissolved the tobacco company";
   - break up
    
9. Cause to lose control emotionally
   "The news dissolved her into tears"
    
10. Lose control emotionally
    "She dissolved into tears when she heard that she had lost all her savings in the pyramid scheme"
     
11. Declare void
    "The President dissolved the parliament and called for new elections";
    - dismiss

1. (film) a gradual transition from one scene to the next; the next scene is gradually superimposed as the former scene fades out
   "The director used a dissolve to show the passage of time"

Derived forms: dissolved, dissolves, dissolving

Type of: alter, break down, break up, change, change integrity, change state, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, disintegrate, end, flux, liquefy, liquify, lose it [informal], modify, snap, terminate, transition, turn, untune [rare], upset

Encyclopedia: Dissolve