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Definition
to end a relationship or meeting; or to terminate a legal entity such as a corporationor in chemistry: the process in which one substance is dissolved in another; or the separation of a compound into its components by chemical action
- It was my antagonist—it was Wilson, who then stood before me in the agonies of his dissolution.Edgar Allan Poe -- William Wilson
- As for grammatical decay, it is not a sign of dissolution, but a sign of active life and constantly renewed strength.Henry L. Mencken -- The American Language
- But even his tremendous will could not overcome the dissolution that assailed it.Jack London -- Sea Wolf
- We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out.Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
- A New York Communist writer summed up the history of the clubs and made a motion for their dissolution.Richard Wright -- Black Boy
- His eyes were bloodshot from lack of sleep, his breath short; the man responsible for the dissolution of Treadstone was exhausted.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
- He had never sought the dissolution of the Soviet Union and never renounced his fundamental commitment to Marxism-Leninism.Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
- There seemed a purpose to its dissolution, as if it were directing them somehow....Cassandra Clare -- City of Heavenly Fire
- 7:00—still breathing at long pauses; symptoms of immediate dissolution.Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
- No one is getting what they want out of the caste dissolution, and they think we don't care."Kiera Cass -- The Heir
- A sense of impending dissolution, of loss and death, brought them back.Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
- In the Rostovs' staid old-fashioned house the dissolution of former conditions of life was but little noticeable.Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
- As for Jett and his men, they were a divided outfit, wearing toward dissolution, answering to the wildness of the time and place.Zane Grey -- The Thundering Herd
- Carter paused to let them imagine the dissolution of The Vigils.Robert Cormier -- The Chocolate War
- What dissolution of the soul you demanded in order to get through one day, what lies, bowings, scrapings, fluency and servility!Virginia Woolf -- The Waves
- Rich men are, frequently, in these days, saved from this dissolution of their fortune by their ability to hire younger brains.Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
- Thou hast been my evil angel, and I will be thine—I will dog thee till the very instant of dissolution!Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
- CHAPTER 38 A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP I did not allow my resolution, with respect to the Parliamentary Debates, to cool.Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
- Ten years, twenty, before dissolution begins to claim him.Cassandra Clare -- City of Fallen Angels
- When Jaime had taken his leave of Lady Amerei, she had been weeping softly at the dissolution of her marriage whilst letting Lyle Crakehall console her.George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows