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DISSOLUBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dissoluble mean? 

DISSOLUBLE (adjective)
  The adjective DISSOLUBLE has 1 sense:

1. capable of dissolvingplay

  Familiarity information: DISSOLUBLE used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DISSOLUBLE (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Capable of dissolving

Synonyms:

dissoluble; dissolvable

Similar:

soluble ((of a substance) capable of being dissolved in some solvent (usually water))

Derivation:

dissolubility (the property of being dissoluble)


 Context examples 


Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

But no one found the words thoughtless or untrue, for Beth still seemed among them, a peaceful presence, invisible, but dearer than ever, since death could not break the household league that love made dissoluble.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)



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