Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Melting; breaking up; vanishing.
- adjective a picture which grows dim and is gradually replaced by another on the same field; -- an effect produced by magic lanterns.
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- verb Present participle of
dissolve .
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- noun the process of going into solution
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Crew members begin dissolving, literally, their bodies just melting down into nothing.
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Crew members begin dissolving, literally, their bodies just melting down into nothing.
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We say that salt dissolving is water is a natural, spontaneous process — even if you are the one who dumped the salt in the water.
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Zachriel: Is salt dissolving is water is a natural, spontaneous process? fifth monarchy man: It depends on whether or not there is a person doing the dissolving
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Is salt dissolving is water is a natural, spontaneous process?
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Is salt dissolving is water is a natural, spontaneous process?
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Given that GM (Firestone and others) was complicit in dissolving the entire “trolley” industry, it seems like poetic justice.
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Again dissolving onself and metamorphosing into another being!
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Visions of a gray uniform came blending in dissolving views with the visions of monarchs in their robes of state and soldiers in heavy armour; it meant much, that gray uniform; and a sense of loss and want and desolation by degrees crept over me, which had nothing to do with the ruin of kingdoms.
Daisy in the Field 1869
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'Nobody has got such kind nieces as me!' cried Sir Hugh, again dissolving into tenderness; 'for all nobody has deserved so ill of them.
Louises commented on the word dissolving
The raw fact of my aloneness kept dissolving into the fantasy of him waking up. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan.
April 1, 2012