A Quick and Simple Dictionary

dissolve

1. Verb.  (transitive) To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding.
2. Verb.  (transitive) To destroy, make disappear.
3. Verb.  (transitive) To liquify, melt into a fluid.
4. Verb.  (intransitive) To be melted, changed into a fluid.
5. Verb.  (chemistry) (transitive) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or gas.
6. Verb.  (chemistry) (intransitive) To be disintegrated by such immersion.
7. Verb.  (transitive) To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.
8. Verb.  (context, cinematography) (intransitive) To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in.
9. Verb.  (intransitive) To resolve itself as by dissolution.
10. Noun.  (context, cinematography) A film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next.