dissolution

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: dis=so=lu=tion

OXFORD DICTIONARY

dissolution, n.
1 disintegration; decomposition.
2 (usu. foll. by of) the undoing or relaxing of a bond, esp.: a a marriage. b a partnership. c an alliance.
3 the dismissal or dispersal of an assembly, esp. of a parliament at the end of its term.
4 death.
5 bringing or coming to an end; fading away; disappearance.
6 dissipation; debauchery.

Etymology

ME f. OF dissolution or L dissolutio (as DISSOLVE)

THESAURUS

dissolution

ablation, adjournment, aloofness, anarchy, annihilation, atomization, attrition, bane, biodegradability, biodegradation, biological death, blackout, blocking, bloodbath, blue ruin, breakdown, breaking down, breaking up, breakup, carnage, cessation of life, chaos, clinical death, collapse, colliquation, conclusion, confusion, consumption, corrosion, corruption, crack-up, crossing the bar, crumbling, curtains, damnation, deactivation, death, death knell, debt of nature, decay, decease, decimation, decoagulation, decomposition, decrement, degradability, degradation, deliquescence, deliquium, dematerialization, demise, demobilization, departure, depletion, depredation, desolation, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, detachment, devastation, diaspora, diffusion, dilapidation, disappearance, disappearing, disbandment, discontinuation, discontinuity, discreteness, disintegration, disjunction, dislocation, dismissal, disorder, disorganization, dispersal, dispersion, disruption, dissipation, dissolving, disunion, division, divorce, divorcement, doom, dying, ebb of life, eclipse, elimination, end, end of life, ending, entropy, erasure, erosion, eternal rest, evanescence, evaporation, exfoliation, exhaustion, exit, expiration, extinction, extinguishment, fadeaway, fadeout, fading, final summons, finger of death, finish, fluidification, fluidization, fragmentation, fusing, fusion, going, going off, grave, hand of death, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, incoherence, inconsistency, jaws of death, knell, last debt, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, leaching, leaving life, liquefaction, liquescence, liquescency, lixiviation, loss, loss of life, making an end, melting, mildew, mold, nonadhesion, noncohesion, occultation, overthrow, oxidation, oxidization, parting, partition, passing, passing away, passing over, percolation, perdition, perishing, quietus, ravage, ravages of time, release, resolution, rest, revolution, reward, ruin, ruination, running, rupture, rust, scaling, scattering, sentence of death, separateness, separation, shades of death, shadow of death, shambles, shattering, shrinkage, silence, slaughter, sleep, solubilization, solution, somatic death, split-up, spoilage, spoliation, summons of death, termination, thawing, unadherence, unadhesiveness, unclotting, undoing, untenacity, vandalism, vanishing, vanishing point, waste, wear, wear and tear, wipe, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck

ROGET THESAURUS

dissolution

Decomposition

N decomposition, analysis, dissection, resolution, catalysis, dissolution, corruption, dispersion, disjunction, disintegration, decomposed, catalytic, analytical, resolvent, separative, solvent.

Abrogation

N abrogation, annulment, nullification, recision, vacatur, canceling, cancel, revocation, revokement, repeal, rescission, defeasance, dismissal, conge, demission, bounce, deposal, deposition, dethronement, disestablishment, disendowment, deconsecration, sack, walking papers, pink slip, walking ticket, yellow cover, abolition, abolishment, dissolution, counter order, countermand, repudiation, retraction, retractation, recantation, abolitionist, abrogated, functus officio, Int, get along with you!, begone!, go about your business!, away with!.

Destruction

N destruction, waste, dissolution, breaking up, diruption, disruption, consumption, disorganization, fall, downfall, devastation, ruin, perdition, crash, eboulement, smash, havoc, delabrement, debacle, break down, break up, fall apart, prostration, desolation, bouleversement, wreck, wrack, shipwreck, cataclysm, washout, extinction, annihilation, destruction of life, knock-down blow, doom, crack of doom, destroying, demolition, demolishment, overthrow, subversion, suppression, abolition, biblioclasm, sacrifice, ravage, razzia, inactivation, incendiarism, revolution, extirpation, beginning of the end, commencement de la fin, road to ruin, dilapidation, sabotage, destroyed, perishing, trembling to its fall, nodding to its fall, tottering to its fall, in course of destruction, extinct, all-destroying, all-devouring, all-engulfing, destructive, subversive, ruinous, devastating, incendiary, deletory, destroying, suicidal, deadly, with crushing effect, with a sledge hammer, delenda est Carthago, dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit, ecrasez l'infame.

Liquefaction

N liquefaction, liquescence, liquescency, melting, colliquation, colliquefaction, thaw, liquation, deliquation, deliquescence, lixiviation, dissolution, solution, apozem, lixivium, infusion, flux, solvent, menstruum, alkahest, liquefied, liquescent, liquefiable, deliquescent, soluble, colliquative.

Death

N death, decease, demise, dissolution, departure, obit, release, rest, quietus, fall, loss, bereavement, mortality, morbidity, end of life &c, cessation of life &c, loss of life, extinction of life, ebb of life, death warrant, death watch, death rattle, death bed, stroke of death, agonies of death, shades of death, valley of death, jaws of death, hand of death, last breath, last gasp, last agonies, dying day, dying breath, dying agonies, chant du cygne, rigor mortis, Stygian shore, King of terrors, King Death, Death, doom, Hell's grim Tyrant, euthanasia, break up of the system, natural death, natural decay, sudden death, violent death, untimely end, watery grave, debt of nature, suffocation, asphyxia, fatal disease, death blow, necrology, bills of mortality, obituary, death song, dead, lifeless, deceased, demised, departed, defunct, extinct, late, gone, no more, exanimate, inanimate, out of the world, taken off, released, departed this life, dead and gone, dead as a doornail, dead as a doorpost, dead as a mutton, dead as a herring, dead as nits, launched into eternity, gone to one's eternal reward, gone to meet one's maker, pushing up daisies, gathered to one's fathers, numbered with the dead, dying, moribund, morient, hippocratic, in articulo, in extremis, in the jaws of death, in the agony of death, going off, aux abois, one one's last legs, on one's death bed, at the point of death, at death's door, at the last gasp, near one's end, given over, booked, with one foot in the grave, tottering on the brink of the grave, stillborn, mortuary, deadly, post obit, post mortem, life ebbs, life fails, life hangs by a thread, one's days are numbered, one's hour is come, one's race is run, one's doom is sealed, Death knocks at the door, Death stares one in the face, the breath is out of the body, the grave closes over one, sic itur ad astra, de mortuis nil nisi bonum, dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, honesta mors turpi vita potior, in adamantine chains shall death be bound, mors ultima linea rerum est, ominia mors aequat, Spake the grisly Terror, the lone couch of this everlasting sleep, nothing is certain but death and taxes.