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
Gandharvas, after whom it is named, are singers and other musicians in Indra's heaven, who, like the apsaras, enter into unions that are not intended to be enduring, but are dissoluble at will.
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck
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 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
In her husband's view, it seemed, under no circumstances was marriage dissoluble.
From The Patrician by John Galsworthy
We deny that the founders and fathers ever contemplated a mere temporary alliance dissoluble at the caprice of any member.
From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by George Spring Merriam
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