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What does dissolve mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding
  2. (transitive) To destroy, make disappear
  3. (transitive) To liquify, melt into a fluid
  4. (intransitive) To be melted, changed into a fluid
  5. (chemistry) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or gas.
  6. (chemistry) To be disintegrated by such immersion.
  7. (transitive) To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.
  8. (transitive) To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
  9. (law, transitive) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.
  10. (cinematography, intransitive) To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in.
  11. (intransitive) To resolve itself as by dissolution
  12. (obsolete) To solve; to clear up; to resolve.
  13. To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
Noun
  1. (cinematography) A form of film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next.
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