## Meanings
1. To mix into a liquid and become part of it.
2. To make a solid mix completely into a liquid.
3. To officially end an organization, marriage, or formal arrangement.
4. To gradually disappear or fade away.

## Examples
- The sugar quickly dissolved in the hot coffee.
- Dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water.
- The court formally dissolved their marriage.
- Her anger slowly dissolved as he explained what had happened.

## Derived Forms
- codissolve
- dissolvability
- dissolvable
- dissolvement
- dissolver
- dissolvible
- dissolvingly
- nondissolving
- redissolve
- undissolving

## Related Forms
- melt

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *lewh₁-
- Root: dissolven
- Root: dissolvo
- Root: dissoldre

## Etymology
Recorded since c. 1374 (displacing Old English toliesan) as Middle English dissolven, from Latin dissolvere (“to loosen up, break apart”) but with the sense from Anglo-Norman dissoldre (variant of Old French dissoudre), itself from dis- (“apart”) + solvere (“to loose, loosen”). By surface analysis, dis- + solve.

## AI Etymology
Dissolve: Recorded since c. 1374 (displacing Old English toliesan) as Middle English dissolven, from Latin dissolvere (“to loosen up, break apart”) but with the sense from Anglo-Norman dissoldre (variant of Old French dissoudre), itself from dis- (“apart”) + solvere (“to loose, loosen”). By surface analysis, dis- + solve. In current use, the main senses are “To mix into a liquid and become part of it” and “To make a solid mix completely into a liquid”.

## Topics
- Materials & Substances
- Cause, Change & Process
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