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Definition of dissolution : 1. Change from a solid to a fluid state; solution by heat or moisture; liquefaction; melting.
2. Change of form by chemical agency; decomposition; resolution.
3. Corruption of morals; dissipation; dissoluteness.
4. Destruction of anything by the separation of its parts; ruin.
5. The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation.
6. The dispersion of an assembly by terminating its sessions; the breaking up of a partnership.
7. The extinction of life in the human body; separation of the soul from the body; death.
8. The new product formed by dissolving a body; a solution.
9. The state of being dissolved, or of undergoing liquefaction.

Synonyms:

quashing, citation, defeasance, constituency, profligacy, scission, passage, wastefulness, restraint, lower house, schism, doom, fractionation, fate, live, call for, clearance, adjournment, radioactive decay, dissolve, expulsion, parliament, division, voiding, abrogation, diarrhoea, chamber, removable, curtain, extravagance, partition, into/out of thin air, exit, displacement, acquit, extraction, rescindment, grave, curtains, diet, cleavage, license, dissoluteness, floor, into thin air, dissolving, bring in a verdict, fractionalization, the Dail, disposal, prodigality, away, split, libertinism, repeal, expiry, looseness of the bowels, removal, bifurcation, award, great divide, licentiousness, avoidance, annul, diarrhea, disunion, abatement, sundering, parliamentarian, looseness, rest, sleep, wantonness, charge, bar, waste, acquittal, disappearing act, play

disintegration, dispersion, detachment, evaporation, radiation, distribution, disconnection, dispersal, scattering, diffraction, disjunction, divergence, refraction, disbursement, evanescence, separation, diffusion, breakup, dislocation

disappearance, departure, hiding, fading

liquefaction, solubility

dispossession, exhaustion, debit, penalty, privation, expropriation, deprivation, erosion, setback, decrease, dissipation, forfeiture, ruin, depletion, loss, shrinkage, decrement, attrition, divestiture

extinction, fatality, annihilation, death, ending, cessation, expiration, end, decease, passing, demise, quietus, release, parting

degeneration, decay, rot, gangrene, resolution, mortification, decomposition, putrefaction, dissection, chaos, spoilage

disavowal, nullification, eradication, abnegation, destruction, invalidation, cancellation, divorce, disaffirmation, extinguishment, refutation, dismissal, repudiation, obliteration, abolition, negation, disclamation, neutralization, abolishment, undoing, revocation, rejection, withdrawal, elimination, deletion, annulment, denial, retraction

Usage examples:

• His dissolution becoming inevitable, one of the officers asked him if he had any direction to give with respect to his family; to which he nobly replied, " None! - "Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I", Sir John Ross.
• If the Church shall approve the dissolution of our marriage, be it so- I have but few years, and those of sorrow, to pass. - "The Castle of Otranto", Horace Walpole.
• Clung to as a sheet- anchor in life, He will never leave the soul in the hour of dissolution to the mercy of the storm. - "Memories of Bethany", John Ross Macduff.