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.-to break the continuity of; to disconnect; to disunite; to sunder; to loosen; to undo; to separate.-to convert into a liquid by means of heat, moisture, etc.,; to melt; to liquefy; to soften.-to solve; to clear up; to resolve.-to relax by pleasure; to make powerless.-to annul; to rescind; to discharge or release; as, to dissolve an injunction.-to waste away; to be dissipated; to be decomposed or broken up.-to become fluid; to be melted; to be liquefied.-to fade away; to fall to nothing; to lose power.