Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which dissolves, or has the power of dissolving, in any sense of that word.
- noun In paper-making and other industries, a machine for dissolving, purifying, freeing from acids, and otherwise treating salts, chemicals, clays, colors, and paper pulp in water or other liquids.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, has power to dissolve or dissipate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or that which,
dissolves ordissipates .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances
Etymologies
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Examples
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I, Fenris Badwulf, dependable Satrap and dissolver of problems, wrote this.
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You've got this really great sort of illustration, a debt dissolver, on how to kind of tackle this.
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You've got this really great sort of illustration, a debt dissolver, on how to kind of tackle this.
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You've got this great illustration, a debt dissolver on how to tackle this.
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Do I dislike Cillit Bang the fat dissolver, because it's bad for the environment?
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Melanie, a late-comer to traditional morality (and still 'open-minded' on to abortion, torture, nukes not to mention that dissolver of the instituion of marriage, contraception (which she recommends) etc.) really should practice the virtue of humility.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Melanie, a late-comer to traditional morality (and still 'open-minded' on to abortion, torture, nukes not to mention that dissolver of the instituion of marriage, contraception (which she recommends) etc.) really should practice the virtue of humility.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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There's a somewhat shady treatment called mesotherapy which involves an injection of something called phosphatidylcholine, a purported fat-dissolver.
Leslie Goldman: $18 Million Plus Our Collective Souls to Anyone who Can Cure Cellulite 2008
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Commercial-free space, pollution dissolver and spam killers are priced at anything between 2 and 20 Euros.
A Zero Carbon Footprint? What Individuals Can Do To Make It Happen 2007
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But recurrent episodes of Carterism -- sentimentality about "dialogue" as the dissolver of differences, leavened by vanity about the power of one's personality -- waste time, which we are running short of.
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