dissolve

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   declare void

   The President dissolved the parliament and called for new elections

2. 2
   verb

   come to an end

   Their marriage dissolved

3. 3
   verb

   bring the association of to an end or cause to break up

   The decree officially dissolved the marriage

4. 4
   verb

   pass into a solution

   The sugar quickly dissolved in the coffee

5. 5
   verb

   cause to go into a solution

   The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water

6. 6
   verb

   cause to fade away

   dissolve a shot or a picture

7. 7
   verb

   lose control emotionally

   I dissolved into tears when i heard that my friend had lost all their savings in a pyramid scheme.

8. 8
   verb

   cause to lose control emotionally

   The news dissolved them into tears.

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.