dissolve into tears/laughter

Examples of dissolving

dissolving

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

One of her greatest disappointments was the dissolving of her second marriage after her husband had an affair with a younger woman.
I will argue that globalisation and neo-liberalism have been identified as two of the core forces in the process of dissolving the public.
In dissolving the so-called voting paradox, one could offer either a teamwork dissolution or -at the other extreme-an invisible-hand dissolution.
The composer often enhances this effect by dissolving the final bars into a pianissimo, thus preparing the return of secco recitative.
Even without dissolving team farming itself, many identifiable economic problems could have been solved by rationalizing state agricultural policies.
This involved the use of a "dissolutive liquid, capable of penetrating and dissolving radically all mixt bodies," known as alkahest.
However, this is not to say that we can simply embark on a revisionist historiography based on dissolving them.
Cross-cultural solutions to problems resulting from involuntary childlessness have included such strategies as adoption, finding new partners, and dissolving marriages that do not produce offspring.
Rather than dissolving lyric into pure song, she sought to make it legible as a material effect of metrical translation.
Another essential aspect of this microscopy of sound and noise is the dissolving of each particular sound's semantic meaning.
They supply the resources needed to spot contradictions or inconsistencies but, paradoxically, they may also have a dissolving effect on conflict.
Unless they are dissolving, bubbles must grow in any liquid, because the pressure on them decreases as they rise.
Nor is the process of dissolving myths explored as fully as it might be.
Finally, the cost to the president of dissolving parliament should decline with his formal constitutional powers.
Moreover, pre-recorded voices are often manipulated, sometimes dissolving or bending the gender of the voice.
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