Decrease and Dissolve

decrease

A change downward.
- usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
- synonyms: lessening, drop-off
A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
- synonyms: decrement
The amount by which something decreases.
- synonyms: decrement
The act of decreasing or reducing something.
- synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

Decrease in size, extent, or range.
- usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
- synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
Make smaller.
- usage: "He decreased his staff"
- synonyms: lessen, minify

(v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
(v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
(n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
(v.) The wane of the moon.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

dissolve

Film) a gradual transition from one scene to the next; the next scene is gradually superimposed as the former scene fades out. (

Become weaker.
- usage: "The sound faded out"
- synonyms: fade out, fade away
Cause to go into a solution.
- usage: "The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water"
- synonyms: resolve, break up
Come to an end.
- usage: "Their marriage dissolved"; "The tobacco monopoly broke up"
- synonyms: break up
Stop functioning or cohering as a unit.
- usage: "The political wing of the party dissolved after much internal fighting"
- synonyms: disband
Cause to lose control emotionally.
- usage: "The news dissolved her into tears"
Lose control emotionally.
- usage: "She dissolved into tears when she heard that she had lost all her savings in the pyramid scheme"
Cause to fade away.
- usage: "dissolve a shot or a picture"
Pass into a solution.
- usage: "The sugar quickly dissolved in the coffee"
Become or cause to become soft or liquid.
- usage: "The sun melted the ice"; "the ice thawed"; "the ice cream melted"; "The heat melted the wax"; "The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase"; "dethaw the meat"
- synonyms: thaw, unfreeze, unthaw, dethaw, melt
Bring the association of to an end or cause to break up.
- usage: "The decree officially dissolved the marriage"; "the judge dissolved the tobacco company"
- synonyms: break up
Declare void.
- usage: "The President dissolved the parliament and called for new elections"
- synonyms: dismiss

(v.t.) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release; as, to dissolve an injunction.
(v.i.) To become fluid; to be melted; to be liquefied.
(v.i.) To fade away; to fall to nothing; to lose power.
(v.t.) To convert into a liquid by means of heat, moisture, etc.,; to melt; to liquefy; to soften.
(v.t.) To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to disunite; to sunder; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
(v.t.) To solve; to clear up; to resolve.
(v.t.) 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.
(v.i.) To waste away; to be dissipated; to be decomposed or broken up.
(v.t.) To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary