Dissolution
[dɪsə'luːʃ(ə)n] or [,dɪsə'luʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations).
(noun.) separation into component parts.
Checked by Leda--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation.
(n.) Change from a solid to a fluid state; solution by heat or moisture; liquefaction; melting.
(n.) Change of form by chemical agency; decomposition; resolution.
(n.) The dispersion of an assembly by terminating its sessions; the breaking up of a partnership.
(n.) The extinction of life in the human body; separation of the soul from the body; death.
(n.) The state of being dissolved, or of undergoing liquefaction.
(n.) The new product formed by dissolving a body; a solution.
(n.) Destruction of anything by the separation of its parts; ruin.
(n.) Corruption of morals; dissipation; dissoluteness.
Typist: Pansy
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Liquefaction, melting, solution.[2]. Decomposition, putrefaction.[3]. Death, decease, extinction of life.[4]. Destruction, overthrow, ruin.[5]. Termination, breaking up.
Edited by Caleb
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See DECOMPOSITION]
Typed by Adele
Examples
- But when she went away, he relapsed under the misery of his dissolution. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Those few warm words, though only warm with anger, breathed on that frail frost-work of reserve; about this time, it gave note of dissolution. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- That night passed: all nights--even the starless night before dissolution--must wear away. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Poland was indeed born as a nation on the eve of her dissolution. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Was he a messenger, an omen of the universal dissolution into whiteness and snow? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The active metals of the electrodes--which will oxidize and reduce in this electrolyte without dissolution or chemical deterioration--are nickel and iron. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP I did not allow my resolution, with respect to the Parliamentary Debates, to cool. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It was as if she HAD to return to this small, slow, central whirlpool of disintegration and dissolution: just give it a look. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Dissolution rolls on, just as production does,' he said. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- With another strange, sick convulsion, she turned away, as if she were sick, could feel dissolution setting-in in her body. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And democracy has her own good, of which the insatiable desire brings her to dissolution? Plato. The Republic.
- In the moment of its dissolution, and of his first full knowledge of his influence upon her, she dropped, and he caught her on his arm. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She suffered the ghastliness of dissolution, broken and gone in a horrible corruption. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Thou hast been my evil angel, and I will be thine--I will dog thee till the very instant of dissolution! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- To him democracy is a state of individualism or dissolution; in which every one is doing what is right in his own eyes. Plato. The Republic.
Editor: Shelton