Dissolve

[dɪ'zɒlv] or [dɪ'zɑlv]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) (film) a gradual transition from one scene to the next; the next scene is gradually superimposed as the former scene fades out.

(verb.) declare void; 'The President dissolved the parliament and called for new elections'.

(verb.) come to an end; 'Their marriage dissolved'; 'The tobacco monopoly broke up'.

(verb.) bring the association of to an end or cause to break up; 'The decree officially dissolved the marriage'; 'the judge dissolved the tobacco company'.

(verb.) become or cause to become soft or liquid; 'The sun melted the ice'; 'the ice thawed'; 'the ice cream melted'; 'The heat melted the wax'; 'The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase'; 'dethaw the meat'.

(verb.) pass into a solution; 'The sugar quickly dissolved in the coffee'.

(verb.) cause to go into a solution; 'The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water'.

(verb.) become weaker; 'The sound faded out'.

(verb.) lose control emotionally; 'She dissolved into tears when she heard that she had lost all her savings in the pyramid scheme'.

(verb.) cause to lose control emotionally; 'The news dissolved her into tears'.

(verb.) cause to fade away; 'dissolve a shot or a picture'.

布伦达編輯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To separate into competent parts; to disorganize; to break up; hence, to bring to an end by separating the parts, sundering a relation, etc.; to terminate; to destroy; to deprive of force; as, to dissolve a partnership; to dissolve Parliament.

(v. t.) To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to disunite; to sunder; to loosen; to undo; to separate.

(v. t.) To convert into a liquid by means of heat, moisture, etc.,; to melt; to liquefy; to soften.

(v. t.) To solve; to clear up; to resolve.

(v. t.) To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.

(v. t.) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release; as, to dissolve an injunction.

(v. i.) To waste away; to be dissipated; to be decomposed or broken up.

(v. i.) To become fluid; to be melted; to be liquefied.

(v. i.) To fade away; to fall to nothing; to lose power.

整理:威尔伯

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Liquefy, melt.[2]. Disunite, sever, separate, divide, loose, disorganize, break apart.[3]. Destroy, ruin.[4]. Terminate, bring to an end, put an end to, break up.

v. n. [1]. Melt, liquefy, be melted.[2]. Vanish, disappear, fade, melt away, be dissipated.[3]. Perish, crumble, be destroyed.

編輯:利瓦伊

同義詞及反義詞：

[See MELT_and_CONSOLIDATE]

整理:卢修斯

解釋/意思:

v.t. to loose asunder: to separate or break up: to put an end to (as a parliament): to melt: to destroy as by fire: (arch.) to resolve as doubts.—v.i. to break up: to waste away: to crumble: to melt.—adj. Diss′olūte loose esp. in morals: lewd: licentious.—adv. Diss′olūtely.—ns. Diss′olūteness; Dissolū′tion the breaking up of an assembly: change from a solid to a liquid state: a melting: separation of a body into its original elements: decomposition: destruction: death; Dissolū′tionism; Dissolū′tionist.—ns. Dissolvabil′ity Dissolv′ableness.—adjs. Dissolv′able Dissolv′ible capable of being dissolved or melted.—n. and adj. Dissolv′ent a solvent having the power to melt.

整理:雪麗