transitive verb, intransitive verb dissolved -·solved′, dissolving -·solv′·ing

1. to make or become liquid; liquefy; melt
2. to merge with a liquid; pass or make pass into solution
3. to break up; disunite; decompose; disintegrate
4. to end by or as by breaking up; terminate
5. to disappear or make disappear
6. Film, TV to combine or be combined in a lap dissolve

Etymology: ME dissolven < L dissolvere, to loosen < dis-, apart + solvere, to loosen: see solve

noun