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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dissolution \Dis'so*lu"tion\, noun [OE. dissolucioun dissoluteness, F. dissolution, fr. L. dissolutio, fr. dissolvere. See {Dissolve}.]
1. The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation.
Dissolutions of ancient amities. --Shak.
2. Change from a solid to a fluid state; solution by heat or moisture; liquefaction; melting.
3. Change of form by chemical agency; decomposition; resolution.
The dissolution of the compound. --South.
4. The dispersion of an assembly by terminating its sessions; the breaking up of a partnership.
Dissolution is the civil death of Parliament. --Blackstone.
5. The extinction of life in the human body; separation of the soul from the body; death.
We expected Immediate dissolution. --Milton.
6. The state of being dissolved, or of undergoing liquefaction.
A man of continual dissolution and thaw. --Shak.
7. The new product formed by dissolving a body; a solution. --Bacon.
8. Destruction of anything by the separation of its parts; ruin.
To make a present dissolution of the world. --Hooker.
9. Corruption of morals; dissipation; dissoluteness. [Obs. or R.] --Atterbury.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
dissolution
noun
1: the process of going into solution; "the dissolving of salt in water" [syn: {dissolving}]
2: separation into component parts [syn: {disintegration}]
3: dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure [syn: {profligacy}, {dissipation}, {licentiousness}]
4: the termination of a meeting [syn: {adjournment}]
5: the termination of a relationship [syn: {breakup}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
208 Moby Thesaurus words for "dissolution": ablation, adjournment, aloofness, anarchy, annihilation, atomization, attrition, bane, biodegradability, biodegradation, biological death, blackout, blocking, bloodbath, blue ruin, breakdown, breaking down, breaking up, breakup, carnage, cessation of life, chaos, clinical death, collapse, colliquation, conclusion, confusion, consumption, corrosion, corruption, crack-up, crossing the bar, crumbling, curtains, damnation, deactivation, death, death knell, debt of nature, decay, decease, decimation, decoagulation, decomposition, decrement, degradability, degradation, deliquescence, deliquium, dematerialization, demise, demobilization, departure, depletion, depredation, desolation, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, detachment, devastation, diaspora, diffusion, dilapidation, disappearance, disappearing, disbandment, discontinuation, discontinuity, discreteness, disintegration, disjunction, dislocation, dismissal, disorder, disorganization, dispersal, dispersion, disruption, dissipation, dissolving, disunion, division, divorce, divorcement, doom, dying, ebb of life, eclipse, elimination, end, end of life, ending, entropy, erasure, erosion, eternal rest, evanescence, evaporation, exfoliation, exhaustion, exit, expiration, extinction, extinguishment, fadeaway, fadeout, fading, final summons, finger of death, finish, fluidification, fluidization, fragmentation, fusing, fusion, going, going off, grave, hand of death, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, incoherence, inconsistency, jaws of death, knell, last debt, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, leaching, leaving life, liquefaction, liquescence, liquescency, lixiviation, loss, loss of life, making an end, melting, mildew, mold, nonadhesion, noncohesion, occultation, overthrow, oxidation, oxidization, parting, partition, passing, passing away, passing over, percolation, perdition, perishing, quietus, ravage, ravages of time, release, resolution, rest, revolution, reward, ruin, ruination, running, rupture, rust, scaling, scattering, sentence of death, separateness, separation, shades of death, shadow of death, shambles, shattering, shrinkage, silence, slaughter, sleep, solubilization, solution, somatic death, split-up, spoilage, spoliation, summons of death, termination, thawing, unadherence, unadhesiveness, unclotting, undoing, untenacity, vandalism, vanishing, vanishing point, waste, wear, wear and tear, wipe, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck
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