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dissolves - definition and meaning
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verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dissolve .
noun Plural form of dissolve .
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The original language dissolves from the exhaustion of distance like fog trying to cross an ocean, but this process of renaming, of finding new metaphors, is the same process that the poet faces every morning of his working day, making his own tools like
Derek Walcott - Nobel Lecture 1997
The Babylonian houses were built of sun-dried bricks; when demolished, the rain dissolves the whole into a mass of mire, in the wet land, near the river [Stuart].
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871
The doctor's word dissolves away his human sufferings
The Economist: Daily news and views 2011
The doctor's word dissolves away his human sufferings
The Economist: Daily news and views 2011
And that scene kind of dissolves or cuts into a flame, a fire.
Fresh Air Remembers 'Bonnie And Clyde' Director 2010
And that scene kind of dissolves or cuts into a flame, a fire.
Fresh Air Remembers 'Bonnie And Clyde' Director 2010
That smug feeling you get for remembering your cycling sunglasses kind of dissolves when you get home and realise there is about a teaspoonful of dead gnats in your shirt pocket.
Mmmm. Protein. 2009
And that scene kind of dissolves or cuts into a flame, a fire.
Fresh Air Remembers 'Bonnie And Clyde' Director 2010
And that scene kind of dissolves or cuts into a flame, a fire.
Fresh Air Remembers 'Bonnie And Clyde' Director 2010
And that scene kind of dissolves or cuts into a flame, a fire.
Fresh Air Remembers 'Bonnie And Clyde' Director 2010
GHibbs commented on the word dissolves
Surely this is a verb 'it (sugar, salt) dissolves in water'?
August 31, 2011
bilby commented on the word dissolves
The editor replaced the jarring cuts with disssolves.
And stop calling me Shirley.
August 31, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word dissolves
Brackets around "disssolves" please, big ears.
August 31, 2011
bilby commented on the word dissolves
I can see the subtlety of my SFX is drawing critical acclaim.
disssolves
August 31, 2011