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Dissolve

To separate into competent parts; to disorganize; to break up; hence, to bring to an end by separating the parts, sundering a relation, etc.; to terminate; to destroy; to deprive of force; as, to dissolve a partnership; to dissolve Parliament.

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Verb group 2

Dismiss 84% connected

To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Dismiss 84% connected

To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Broader term 16

Alter 76% connected

To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Change 76% connected

To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Discomfit 76% connected

To scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Discompose 76% connected

To disarrange; to interfere with; to disturb; to disorder; to unsettle; to break up.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Disconcert 76% connected

To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Disintegrate 76% connected

To separate into integrant parts; to reduce to fragments or to powder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a rock, by blows of a hammer, fros…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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End 76% connected

The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Flux 76% connected

The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Liquefy 76% connected

To convert from a solid form to that of a liquid; to melt; to dissolve; and technically, to melt by the sole agency of heat.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Modify 76% connected

To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Snap 76% connected

To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Terminate 76% connected

To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Transition 76% connected

Passage from one place or state to another; charge; as, the transition of the weather from hot to cold.

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Turn 76% connected

To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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Untune 76% connected

To make incapable of harmony, or of harmonious action; to put out of tune.

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Upset 76% connected

To set up; to put upright.

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Manner of action 5

Cut 76% connected

of Cut

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Deliquesce 76% connected

To dissolve gradually and become liquid by attracting and absorbing moisture from the air, as certain salts, acids, and alkalies.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Etch 76% connected

A variant of Eddish.

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Melt 76% connected

See 2d Milt.

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Run 76% connected

of Run

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Derivationally related 6

Dissolution 74% connected

The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Dissolution 74% connected

The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Dissolvent 74% connected

Having power to dissolve power to dissolve a solid body; as, the dissolvent juices of the stomach.

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Dissolvent 74% connected

Having power to dissolve power to dissolve a solid body; as, the dissolvent juices of the stomach.

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Synonym 6

Disband 92% connected

To loose the bands of; to set free; to disunite; to scatter; to disperse; to break up the organization of; especially, to dismiss from military servi…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Dismiss 92% connected

To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Melt 92% connected

See 2d Milt.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Resolve 92% connected

To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Thaw 92% connected

To melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften; -- said of that which is frozen; as, the ice thaws.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Unfreeze 92% connected

To thaw.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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