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dissolve

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1. dissolve - Noun

2. dissolve - Verb

Meaning

To separate into competent parts; to disorganize; to break up; hence, to bring to an end by separating the parts, sundering a relation, etc.; to terminate; to destroy; to deprive of force; as, to dissolve a partnership; to dissolve Parliament.

To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to disunite; to sunder; to loosen; to undo; to separate.

To convert into a liquid by means of heat, moisture, etc.,; to melt; to liquefy; to soften.

To solve; to clear up; to resolve.

To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release; as, to dissolve an injunction.

To waste away; to be dissipated; to be decomposed or broken up.

To become fluid; to be melted; to be liquefied.

To fade away; to fall to nothing; to lose power.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar. Pablo Picasso

Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena.... But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas. Carl von Clausewitz

It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers. Jeane Kirkpatrick

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds. William James

Gifts dissolve rocks. Traditional Proverb

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