Word Meanings - DISSOLUTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation. Dissolutions of ancient amities. Shak. 2. Change from a solid to a fluid state; solution by heat or moisture; liquefaction; melting. 3. Change of form by chemical

Additional info about word: DISSOLUTION

1. The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation. Dissolutions of ancient amities. Shak. 2. Change from a solid to a fluid state; solution by heat or moisture; liquefaction; melting. 3. Change of form by chemical agency; decomposition; resolution. The dissolution of the compound. South. 4. The dispersion of an assembly by terminating its sessions; the breaking up of a partnership. Dissolution is the civil death of Parliament. Blackstone. 5. The extinction of life in the human body; separation of the soul from the body; death. We expected Immediate dissolution. Milton. 6. The state of being dissolved, or of undergoing liquefaction. A man of continual dissolution and thaw. Shak. 7. The new product formed by dissolving a body; a solution. Bacon. 8. Destruction of anything by the separation of its parts; ruin. To make a present dissolution of the world. Hooker. 9. Corruption of morals; dissipation; dissoluteness. Atterbury.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISSOLUTION)

• Death
• Departure
• demise
• decease
• dissolution
• mortality
• fall
• failure
• termination
• cessation
• expiration
• release
• exit
• Rupture
• Breaking
• bursting
• tearing
• laceration
• partition
• disruption
• breach
• fracture
• break
• severance
• disseverance
• discerption
• disorganization
• separation
• dilaceration
• dismemberment

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DISSOLUTION)

• Bind
• constrain
• confine
• shackle
• fetter
• yoke

Related words: (words related to DISSOLUTION)

• TEAR
  A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct
• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• DEATHLY
  Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
• BURSTEN
  p. p. of Burst, v. i.
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• BURST
  berstan (pers. sing. berste, imp. sing. bærst, imp. pl. burston, p.p. borsten); akin to D. bersten, G. bersten, OHG. brestan, OS. brestan, 1. To fly apart or in pieces; of break open; to yield to force or pressure, especially to a sudden
• BREAKABLE
  Capable of being broken.
• DEATHLINESS
  The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
• DEPARTURE
  The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
• EXPIRATION
  The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth; as, respiration consists of inspiration and expiration; -- opposed to Ant: inspiration. Emission of volatile matter; exhalation. The true cause of cold
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• DEATHWATCH
  A small beetle . By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ,
• FETTERLESS
  Free from fetters. Marston.
• TEARER
  One who tears or rends anything; also, one who rages or raves with violence.
• RUPTURED
  Having a rupture, or hernia.
• FRACTURE
  The breaking of a bone. (more info) 1. The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.
• TEARPIT
  A cavity or pouch beneath the lower eyelid of most deer and antelope; the lachrymal sinus; larmier. It is capable of being opened at pleasure and secretes a waxy substance.
• TERMINATIONAL
  Of or pertaining to termination; forming a termination.
• PERSEVERANCE
  Continuance in a state of grace until it is succeeded by a state of glory; sometimes called final perseverance, and the perseverance of the saints. See Calvinism. Syn. -- Persistence; steadfastness; constancy; steadiness; pertinacity. (more info)
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• LAWBREAKER
  One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
• SUNBURST
  A burst of sunlight.
• OATHBREAKING
  The violation of an oath; perjury. Shak
• PEACEBREAKER
  One who disturbs the public peace. -- Peace"break`ing, n.
• CLOUD-BURST
  A sudden copious rainfall, as the whole cloud had been precipitated at once.
• SELF-DETERMINATION
  Determination by one's self; or, determination of one's acts or states without the necessitating force of motives; -- applied to the voluntary or activity.