dissolved

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.changed so as to reduce value, function, or other desirable trait; -- usually not used of persons. Opposite of undamaged. [Narrower terms: battered, beat-up, beaten-up, bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, tumble-down, unsound; bent, crumpled, dented; blasted, rent, ripped, torn; broken-backed; burned-out(prenominal), burned out(predicate), burnt-out(prenominal), burnt out(predicate); burst, ruptured; corroded; cracked, crackled, crazed; defaced, marred; hurt, weakened; knocked-out(prenominal), knocked out; mangled, mutilated; peeling; scraped, scratched; storm-beaten] Also See blemished, broken, damaged, destroyed, impaired, injured, unsound. [WordNet 1.5]

2.Rendered imperfect by impairing the integrity of some part, or by breaking. Opposite of unbroken. [Narrower terms: busted; chipped; cracked; crumbled, fragmented; crushed, ground; dissolved; fractured; shattered, smashed, splintered; split; unkept, violated] Also See: damaged, imperfect, injured, unsound.

Syn: broken. [WordNet 1.5]

3.being unjustly brought into disrepute; as, her damaged reputation.

Syn: discredited. [WordNet 1.5]

4.made to appear imperfect; -- especially of reputation; as, the senator's seriously damaged reputation.

Syn: besmirched, flyblown, spotted, stained, sullied, tainted, tarnished. [WordNet 1.5]

1.To separate into competent parts; to disorganize; to break up; hence, to bring to an end by separating the parts, sundering a relation, etc.; to terminate; to destroy; to deprive of force; as, to dissolve a partnership; to dissolve Parliament. [1913 Webster]

Lest his ungoverned rage dissolve the life.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

2.To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to disunite; to sunder; to loosen; to undo; to separate. [1913 Webster]

Nothing can dissolve us.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

Down fell the duke, his joints dissolved asunder.— Fairfax.[1913 Webster]

For one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another.— The Declaration of Independence.[1913 Webster]

3.To convert into a liquid by means of heat, moisture, etc.,; to melt; to liquefy; to soften. [1913 Webster]

As if the world were all dissolved to tears.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

4.To solve; to clear up; to resolve. "Dissolved the mystery." --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]

Make interpretations and dissolve doubts.— Dan. v. 16.[1913 Webster]

5.To relax by pleasure; to make powerless. [1913 Webster]

Angels dissolved in hallelujahs lie.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

6.(Law) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release; as, to dissolve an injunction.

Syn: See Adjourn. [1913 Webster]

1.changed from a solid to a liquid state by increase of temperature; melted. Opposite of unmelted.

Syn: liquefied, liquified, melted. [WordNet 1.5]

2.sundered by divorce, separation, or desertion; -- of social bonds and relations. [WordNet 1.5]

3.diffused into a liquid of differing chemical composition, forming a stable solution; -- said of chemical substances. [PJC]