1
as in to disappear
to cease to be visible
as the mist dissolved in the morning sun
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2
as in to disband
to cease to exist or cause to cease to exist as a group or organization
the company formally dissolved three months after declaring bankruptcy
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as in to abolish
to put an end to by formal action
the king simply dissolved parliament
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as in to dissipate
to go off in different directions and cease to exist as a body or unified whole
the clouds gradually dissolved, and the sun came out
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Recent Examples of dissolve
The two movies do share a portrait of capitalism in extremis, in which the race to hold onto increasingly smaller pieces of a rapidly dissolving pie feeds more surreal transgressions.
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2025
The engineers at Santa Cruz have also been getting non-shipping requests for items such as dissolving planters to start gardens.
—Jia H. Jung, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2025
After court cases, oil cleanup, and fines, this accident cost BP a grand total of $56 billion, and almost dissolved the company.
—Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Time dissolved in fingers rolling through unruly hair and toes curling under covers.
—Seema Jilani
august 29, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2025
The engineers at Santa Cruz have also been getting non-shipping requests for items such as dissolving planters to start gardens.
—Jia H. Jung, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2025
After court cases, oil cleanup, and fines, this accident cost BP a grand total of $56 billion, and almost dissolved the company.
—Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Time dissolved in fingers rolling through unruly hair and toes curling under covers.
—Seema Jilani
august 29, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dissolve
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After fulfilling the accidental want of a girl named Vira, Christmas, winter symbols, and the magical powers of the wizards, disappear from people’s memories.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
29 Aug. 2025
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Margins improved meaningfully as the drag from mall rent disappeared and e-commerce began to scale.—
Jim Osman,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Officials signaled the district was next on the dissolution list after the County Board disbanded the Lake Bluff Mosquito Abatement District in 2021, leaving the South Lake entity the last of the breed.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Aug. 2025
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So was Sigma Chi, but because its national leadership disbanded the KU chapter, the fraternity will have to start recruiting from scratch.—
Judy L. Thomas,
Kansas City Star,
24 Aug. 2025
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The Chinese leader, who assumed the presidency in 2013, abolished term limits in 2018.—
Evelyn Cheng,Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
3 Sep. 2025
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Bolsonaro and his allies are facing charges of leading an armed criminal organization, attempting to abolish Brazil’s democratic order by force, plotting a coup d’état, and committing violent acts against state institutions.—
Julia Vargas Jones,
CNN Money,
2 Sep. 2025
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Much resistance to multifamily housing in single-family neighborhoods would dissipate if the state would require landlords to maintain their property, said Fayetteville resident Angela Belford of the Belford Group marketing firm.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
4 Sep. 2025
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However, Milei could surprise critics by pragmatically adjusting his economic model to dissipate internal tensions while maintaining political centrality sufficient to win upcoming midterm elections and re-election in 2027.—
Agustino Fontevecchia,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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After that surprising turn of events, The Rock seemingly vanished as part of the storyline, and now fans believe he's finally done appearing in matches.—
Matthew Couden,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Sep. 2025
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Her presence on socials was blank; a few fake ones popped up and then vanished.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Sep. 2025
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This June, the House voted to repeal laws that allowed noncitizens to vote in local elections and that barred the police union from negotiating on disciplinary measures against officers.—
Margaret Talbot,
New Yorker,
17 Aug. 2025
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On Friday, Democrats called for a special legislative session to repeal the tax credit program, often referred to as school vouchers.—
Sarah Cutler,
Idaho Statesman,
15 Aug. 2025
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With tens of thousands of attendees having now dispersed, vital witnesses or clues could be lost.—
Matthew Robinson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
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Several local agencies from neighboring towns were called in to assist in dispersing the unruly crowd, and no injuries were reported among the officers.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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Preliminary findings from Fussell’s ongoing research show that early racial disparities in who returned to New Orleans after Katrina have faded in the years since the storm.—
Dian Zhang,
USA Today,
29 Aug. 2025
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Low-skill industries such as sugar, and then oil and chemicals, and then tourism—by now sugar has faded, but the others, along with the port, still power the local private economy—seemed to provide what Louisiana needed.—
Nicholas Lemann,
New Yorker,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Dissolve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissolve. Accessed 6 Sep. 2025.
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