Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (v. t.) To diffuse; to break down; to melt into; to separate into competent parts; as, to dissolve sugar; to dissolve a company; 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. 2. (v. t.) To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to disunite; to sunder; to loosen; to undo; to separate. 3. (v. t.) To convert into a liquid by means of heat, moisture, etc.,; to melt; to liquefy; to soften. 4. (v. t.) To solve; to clear up; to resolve. 5. (v. t.) To relax by pleasure; to make powerless. 6. (v. t.) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release; as, to dissolve an injunction. 7. (v. i.) To waste away; to be dissipated; to be decomposed or broken up. 8. (v. i.) To become fluid; to be melted; to be liquefied. 9. (v. i.) To fade away; to fall to nothing; to lose power.

Multi-Version Concordance Dissolve (4 Occurrences) Job 30:22 You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS) Psalms 6:6 I am wearied with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I dissolve my couch with my tears. (DBY NAS) Daniel 5:16 But I have heard of you, that you can give interpretations, and dissolve doubts; now if you can read the writing, and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom. (WEB KJV ASV WBS) Nahum 1:5 The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it. (See NAS)