dissoluble
Americanadjective
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capable of being dissolved.
tablets dissoluble in water.
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capable of being destroyed, as through disintegration or decomposition.
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of dissoluble
1525–35; < Latin dissolūbilis, equivalent to dissolū-, stem of dissolvere to dissolve + -bilis -ble. See dis- 1, soluble
Example Sentences
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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.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
In consequence, he has believed this agent immortal; not dissoluble like the body.
From The System of Nature, Volume 1 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'
On the other hand the golden mean between an easily dissoluble relationship, more like an alliance than a federation, and a national system resulting from synoecism was practically never attained in early Greek history.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
Awhile, because you are gifted with agility and strength, you fancy that you live: but frail is the "bower of flesh" that encaskets life; dissoluble the silver cord than binds you to it.
From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Where one man could explain why the nation was an indestructible organism rather than a partnership dissoluble at will, a thousand men could and would fight to prevent the nation from being dissolved.
From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by Merriam, George Spring
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