dissolving

Fading into liquid

Dissolving describes the process of becoming incorporated into a liquid, breaking down, or gradually disappearing.

Sugar dissolving in water loses its solid form.

A partnership dissolving comes to an end.

The morning fog was dissolving in the sunlight.

In film, a dissolve is a transition where one image fades as another emerges—one scene dissolving into the next.

fading

vanishing

Ceasing to be visible

dissipating · fading · evanescence · dwindling · subsiding · receding · waning · ebbing · blurring · dimming

chemical

solvent

Dissolving liquid or financially stable

saturation · dilution · aqueous · suspension · precipitate · concentration · diffusion · hydration · reactivity · colloid

ending

disbandment

Formal termination of group

cessation · annulment · abolition · revocation · invalidation · nullification · repeal · discontinuation · expiry · cancellation

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physical state change

dissolvingprecipitating

Causing to occur suddenly

crystallizing · coagulating · solidifying · congealing · clotting

structural integrity

dissolvingforming

Coming into existence

solidifying · coalescing · cohering · binding · fusing

institutional/organizational continuity

dissolvingestablishing

Creating or setting up

founding · forming · creating · constituting · instituting

Family

dissolve, dissolved, dissolution, dissolves, dissolvable, undissolved, dissolver, dissolvers, dissolvability

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