Synonyms of the word

dissolve

• v. (transitive) To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding.
• v. (transitive) To destroy, make disappear.
• v. (transitive) To liquify, melt into a fluid.
• v. (intransitive) To be melted, changed into a fluid.
• v. (chemistry, transitive) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or gas.
• v. (chemistry, intransitive) To be disintegrated by such immersion.
• v. (transitive) To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.
• v. (transitive) To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
• v. (law, transitive) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.
• v. (cinematography, intransitive) To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the…
• v. (intransitive) To resolve itself as by dissolution.
• v. (obsolete) To solve; to clear up; to resolve.
• v. To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
• n. (cinematography) A film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

dethaw

• v. (nonstandard) To thaw; unthaw; unfreeze.

disband

• v. To break up or cause to cease to exist.
• v. (obsolete) To loose the bands of; to set free.
• v. (obsolete) To divorce.

discomfit

• v. (archaic) To defeat completely; to rout.
• v. To defeat the plans or hopes of; to frustrate.
• v. (proscribed) To embarrass greatly; to confuse; to perplex; to disconcert.
• adj. (obsolete) Discomfited; overthrown.

discompose

• v. (transitive) To destroy the composure of something.

disconcert

• v. (transitive) To upset the composure of.
• v. (transitive) To bring into confusion.
• v. (transitive) To frustrate, make go wrong.

disintegrate

• v. (transitive) To undo the integrity of, break into parts.
• v. (intransitive) To fall apart, break up into parts.

dismiss

• v. (transitive) To discharge; to end the employment or service of.
• v. (transitive) To order to leave.
• v. (transitive) To dispel; to rid one's mind of.
• v. (transitive) To reject; to refuse to accept.
• v. To send or put away.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To get a batsman out.
• v. (transitive, soccer) To give someone a red card; to send off.

end

• n. The initial or (especially) the terminal point of something in space or time.
• n. The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
• n. Death, especially miserable.
• n. Result.
• n. A purpose, goal, or aim.
• n. (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
• n. (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a…
• n. (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
• n. (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex.
• n. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
• n. One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
• v. (ergative) To finish, terminate.

flux

• n. The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
• n. A state of ongoing change.
• n. A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding.
• n. (physics) The rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity) through a given surface, specifically…
• n. (archaic) A disease which causes diarrhea, especially dysentery.
• n. (archaic) Diarrhea or other fluid discharge from the body.
• n. The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.
• v. To use flux.
• v. To melt.
• v. To flow as a liquid.
• adj. (uncommon) Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.

liquefy

• v. (transitive) To make into a liquid.
• v. (intransitive) To become liquid.

liquify

• v. Alternative form of liquefy.

melt

• n. Molten material, the product of melting.
• n. The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.
• n. The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions.
• n. A melt sandwich.
• n. A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water.
• n. (Britain, slang) an idiot.
• v. (ergative) To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To be very hot and sweat profusely.

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

resolve

• v. (transitive) To find a solution to (a problem).
• v. (transitive) To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.
• v. (transitive) To solve again.
• v. (intransitive) To make a firm decision to do something.
• v. (transitive) To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.
• v. To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate;…
• v. To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
• v. (music) To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.
• v. (computing) To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code;…
• v. (rare, transitive) To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid).
• v. (rare, intransitive, reflexive) To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To liquefy (a gas or vapour).
• v. (medicine, dated) To disperse or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumour.
• v. (obsolete) To relax; to lay at ease.
• v. (chemistry) To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers.
• n. Determination, will power.

snap

• n. A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
• n. A sudden break.
• n. An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
• n. The act of making a snapping sound by pressing the thumb and a opposing finger of the same hand together…
• n. A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
• n. A photograph (an abbreviation of snapshot).
• n. The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
• n. A thin circular cookie or similar good.
• n. A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
• n. A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be…
• n. A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
• n. (American football) The passing of a football from the center to a back that begins play, a hike.
• n. (somewhat colloquial) A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
• n. (Britain, regional) A small meal, a snack; lunch.
• n. (uncountable) A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching…
• n. (obsolete) A greedy fellow.
• n. That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement;…
• n. briskness; vigour; energy; decision.
• n. (slang, archaic) Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained. used primarily…
• n. (slang) Something that is easy or effortless.
• n. A snapper, or snap beetle.
• n. (physics, humorous) jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed…
• n. A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.
• n. (colloquial) Something of no value.
• n. A visual message sent on the application Snapchat.
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To fracture or break apart suddenly.
• v. (intransitive) To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
• v. (intransitive) To attempt to seize with the teeth or bite.
• v. (intransitive) To attempt to seize with eagerness.
• v. (intransitive) To speak abruptly or sharply.
• v. (intransitive) To give way abruptly and loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
• v. (intransitive) To flash or appear to flash as with light.
• v. (intransitive) To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
• v. (intransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
• v. (transitive) To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
• v. (transitive) To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
• v. (transitive) To say abruptly or sharply.
• v. (transitive, dated) To speak to abruptly or sharply; to treat snappishly; usually with up.
• v. (transitive) To cause something to emit a snapping sound.
• v. (transitive) To close something using a snap as a fastener.
• v. (transitive) To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing…
• v. (transitive) To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
• v. (transitive) To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
• v. (transitive, American football) To put the ball in play by passing it from the center to a back; to hike…
• v. To misfire.
• v. (cricket, transitive) To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
• interj. The winning cry at a game of snap.
• interj. (Britain) By extension from the card game, "I've got one the same." or similar.
• interj. (Britain) Ritual utterance of agreement (after the cry in the card game snap).
• interj. (Canada, US) Used in place of expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement…
• interj. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Ritual utterance used after something is said by two people at exactly…
• adj. (informal) Done, performed, made, etc. quickly and without deliberation.

terminate

• v. (transitive or intransitive, formal) To end, especially in an incomplete state.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To kill.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
• adj. Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.
• adj. Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.
• adj. (mathematics) Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.

thaw

• v. (intransitive) To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen.
• v. (intransitive) To become so warm as to melt ice and snow — said in reference to the weather, and used…
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To grow gentle or genial.
• v. (transitive) To gradually cause frozen things (such as earth, snow, ice) to melt, soften, or dissolve.
• n. The melting of ice, snow, or other congealed matter; the resolution of ice, or the like, into the state…
• n. a warmth of weather sufficient to melt that which is frozen.

transition

• n. The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
• n. A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
• n. (music) A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
• n. (genetics) A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine);…
• n. (some sports) A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.
• n. (medicine) The onset of the final stage of childbirth.
• n. (education) Professional special education assistance for children or adults in the process of leaving…
• n. (skating) A change between forward and backward motion without stopping.
• n. (LGBT) The process or act of changing from one gender role to another, or of bringing one's outward appearance…
• v. (intransitive) To make a transition.
• v. (transitive) To bring through a transition; to change.
• v. (intransitive, LGBT) To change from one gender role to another, or bring one's outward appearance in line…

turn

• v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
• v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
• v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
• v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
• v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
• v. (archaic) To translate.
• n. A change of direction or orientation.
• n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
• n. A single loop of a coil.
• n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
• n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
• n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
• n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
• n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
• n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
• n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
• n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
• n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
• n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
• n. A deed done to another.
• n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
• n. Character; personality; nature.
• n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.

unfreeze

• v. (transitive) To defrost something.
• v. (intransitive) To thaw.
• v. (intransitive) To resume movement.
• v. (transitive, computing) To release from a previously locked or frozen state.

unthaw

• v. To not thaw; to (re-)freeze or remain frozen.
• v. To thaw out, to unfreeze; to become soft (of something which had been frozen).

untune

• v. (transitive) To make incapable of harmony, or of harmonious action; to put out of tune.

upset

• adj. (of a person) Angry, distressed, or unhappy.
• adj. (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract, referred to as stomach) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to…
• n. (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
• n. (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored…
• n. (automobile insurance) An overturn.
• n. An upset stomach.
• n. (mathematics) An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is…
• v. (transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
• v. (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
• v. (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).
• v. (transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.
• v. (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.
• v. (obsolete) To set up; to put upright.
• v. To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
• v. To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.