different between dissolve vs degrade

English

Etymology

Recorded since c. 1374, from Latin dissolvere (“to loosen up, break apart”), itself from dis- (“apart”) + solvere (“to loose, loosen”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??z?lv/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??z?lv/
• Hyphenation: dis?solve

Verb

dissolve (third-person singular simple present dissolves, present participle dissolving, simple past and past participle dissolved)

1. (transitive) To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding.

   Antonyms: establish, found

2. (transitive) To destroy, make disappear.
3. (transitive) To liquify, melt into a fluid.

   Synonyms: melt, formelt
4. (intransitive) To be melted, changed into a fluid.
5. (chemistry, transitive) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or gas.
6. (chemistry, intransitive) 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.

   • Down fell the duke, his joints dissolved asunder.

   • 1776, The Declaration of Independence

     For one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another.

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.

    Synonym: fade out

11. (intransitive) To resolve itself as by dissolution.
12. (obsolete) To solve; to clear up; to resolve.
    • ?, Alfred Tennyson, A Dream of Fair Women

      dissolved the mystery

    • Make interpretations and dissolve doubts.

13. To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
    • 1677, John Dryden, The State of Innocence, Preface

      [Angels] dissolv'd in hallelujahs lie.

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Translations

See also

• melt

Noun

dissolve (plural dissolves)

1. (cinematography) a form of film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next

   Synonym: fade out

Translations

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?lve

Verb

dissolve

1. third-person singular present indicative of dissolvere

Anagrams

• disvolse

Latin

Verb

dissolve

1. second-person singular present active imperative of dissolv?

Portuguese

Verb

dissolve

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of dissolver
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of dissolver

English

Etymology

From Middle French dégrader

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d????e?d/, /di???e?d/

Rhymes: -e?d

Verb

degrade (third-person singular simple present degrades, present participle degrading, simple past and past participle degraded)

1. (transitive) To lower in value or social position.
   • 1859-1890, John G. Palfrey, History of New England to the Revolutionary War

     Prynne was sentenced by the Star Chamber Court to be degraded from the bar.

2. (intransitive, ergative) To reduce in quality or purity.

3. (transitive, geology) To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.

Derived terms

• degradation

Translations

Portuguese

Verb

degrade

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of degradar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of degradar
3. third-person singular imperative of degradar

Spanish

Verb

degrade

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of degradar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of degradar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of degradar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of degradar.