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DISSOLVING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The process of going into solution
Example:
the dissolving of salt in water
Synonyms:
dissolution; dissolving
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("dissolving" is a kind of...):
liquefaction (the conversion of a solid or a gas into a liquid)
Derivation:
dissolve (pass into a solution)
dissolve (cause to go into a solution)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb dissolve
Context examples:
Most existing models that lay out the origin of Titan's lakes show liquid methane dissolving the moon's bedrock of ice and solid organic compounds, carving reservoirs that fill with the liquid.
(New Models Suggest Titan Lakes Are Explosion Craters, NASA)
Standing behind him Michaelis saw with a shock that he was looking at the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg which had just emerged pale and enormous from the dissolving night.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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