Usually means: Substance integrates into liquid, forming solution.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word dissolves:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. dissolves: Merriam-Webster
  2. dissolves: Collins English Dictionary
  3. dissolves: Vocabulary.com
  4. Dissolves, dissolves: Wordnik
  5. dissolves: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. dissolves: Wiktionary
  7. dissolves: Dictionary.com
  8. dissolves: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. dissolves: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dissolves: Legal dictionary
  2. dissolves: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dissolves: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dissolves: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. dissolves: Medical dictionary

(Note: See dissolve as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (dissolve)

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