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单词 dissolve
释义

dissolveverb

uk/dɪˈzɒlv/us/dɪˈzɑːlv/

dissolve verb (BE ABSORBED)

C2 [ I or T ] (of a solid) to be absorbed by a liquid, especially when mixed, or (of a liquid) to absorb a solid:

Dissolve two spoons of powder in warm water.
Nitric acid will dissolve most animal tissue.

More examples

  • Pour the powder into the solution and stir it gently until the powder has dissolved.
  • Drop two tablets into a glass of water and leave them to dissolve.
  • We have to keep stirring until all the cubes of jelly have dissolved.
  • Sugar is a soluble substance, which means that it dissolves in water.
  • This all-purpose fertilizer comes in the form of blue granules that dissolve easily.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Physical & chemical processes

  • addition reaction
  • adiabatic
  • adsorb
  • advection
  • alpha decay
  • condensation
  • degradable
  • diffraction
  • exothermic reaction
  • impregnate
  • processus
  • redox
  • refraction
  • rehydrate
  • saponification
  • scald
  • secretion
  • suction
  • the carbon cycle
  • vaporize

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dissolve verb (END)

C1 [ T often passive ] to end an official organization or a legal arrangement:

Parliament has been dissolved.
Their marriage was dissolved in 1968.

[ I ] to disappear:

The tension in the office just dissolves when she walks out.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Causing something to end

  • abandon
  • all good things (must) come to an end idiom
  • and have done with it idiom
  • be over the hump idiom
  • bitter
  • draw
  • knock off (sth)
  • lay
  • lay sth to rest idiom
  • lay the ghost of sth (to rest) idiom
  • leave it at that idiom
  • leave off (sth/doing sth)
  • lift
  • raise
  • stone-dead
  • suppression
  • the curtain falls on sth idiom
  • to the bitter end idiom
  • top sth off
  • walk

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Appearing & disappearing

Idiom(s)

dissolve into tears/laughter
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