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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
dissolve . - noun Plural form of
dissolve .
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Examples
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The original language dissolves from the exhaustion of distance like fog trying to cross an ocean, but this process of renaming, of finding new metaphors, is the same process that the poet faces every morning of his working day, making his own tools like
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The Babylonian houses were built of sun-dried bricks; when demolished, the rain dissolves the whole into a mass of mire, in the wet land, near the river [Stuart].
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The doctor's word dissolves away his human sufferings
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The doctor's word dissolves away his human sufferings
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And that scene kind of dissolves or cuts into a flame, a fire.
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And that scene kind of dissolves or cuts into a flame, a fire.
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That smug feeling you get for remembering your cycling sunglasses kind of dissolves when you get home and realise there is about a teaspoonful of dead gnats in your shirt pocket.
Mmmm. Protein. 2009
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And that scene kind of dissolves or cuts into a flame, a fire.
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And that scene kind of dissolves or cuts into a flame, a fire.
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And that scene kind of dissolves or cuts into a flame, a fire.
GHibbs commented on the word dissolves
Surely this is a verb 'it (sugar, salt) dissolves in water'?
August 31, 2011
bilby commented on the word dissolves
The editor replaced the jarring cuts with disssolves.
And stop calling me Shirley.
August 31, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word dissolves
Brackets around "disssolves" please, big ears.
August 31, 2011
bilby commented on the word dissolves
I can see the subtlety of my SFX is drawing critical acclaim.
disssolves
August 31, 2011