dissolve

About 5.00 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding.

   The ruling party or coalition sometimes dissolves parliament early when the polls are favorable, hoping to reconvene with a larger majority.

2. verb To destroy, make disappear.
3. verb To liquify, melt into a fluid.
4. verb To be melted, changed into a fluid.
5. verb To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or other material.
6. verb To be disintegrated by such immersion.
7. verb To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.
8. verb To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.

Similar words

disband break up fall apart fade away fade out disbandment abolish dispel defuse terminate

Often followed by

the in into it and a parliament to them

Word family

dissolvable dissolved dissolvent dissolvents dissolver dissolvers dissolves dissolving