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Meanings of dissolving in English

The process of going into solution.

Usage of dissolving in English
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It did not work: far from dissolving, his sense of alienation deepened.
Career of Evil
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The electric lights were dissolving in the gray alembic of the dawn.
The Greater Inclination
3
The gas may be purified by dissolving metallic salts in the water.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885
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The debt had been routinely refinanced prior to the law dissolving redevelopment.
Reuters
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He felt himself dissolving, like a pill in water, the process irrevocable.
The passage
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This will effervesce during the time the acid is dissolving the zinc.
Practical Mechanics for Boys
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The water soon dissolves all the lime it is capable of dissolving.
Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, an...
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The bond that had held them all this long summer was dissolving.
IT
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Snake gall bladder proves especially effective in dissolving phlegm and improving vision.
Death of a Red Heroine
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The morning is still gray, but the sun is dissolving the haze.
Two Years in the French West Indies
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They appear to be dissolving in public before our eyes, said Holtmann.
Reuters
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The crowd continually dissolving amid street cars and autos is the villain.
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
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The dissolving of parliament is not our aim, Suthep Thaugsuban told Reuters.
Reuters
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Was that really the defending champion Serena Williams dissolving in straight sets?
The Guardian
15
Then the scene changed again with the rapidity of a dissolving view.
Love Among the Chickens
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Nor could he make the counterclaim for a dissolving of the betrothal.
We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
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