dissolvent
capable of dissolving another substance.
a solvent.
Origin of dissolvent
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How to use dissolvent in a sentence
Drink water by pailfuls: it is a universal dissolvent; water liquefies all the salts.
Let us trace the disastrous effects of these three dissolvent forces.
Guilds in the Middle Ages | George RenardThe flesh is white, delicate, partly translucent, easy for our stomachs to digest and no less suited to the grub's dissolvent.
The Life of the Fly | J. Henri FabreThe dream was agonizing as he tried one dissolvent after another without success.
Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective | Ellis Parker ButlerIt is enough here to remind ourselves how serious a place is held by that work in the dissolvent literature of the generation.
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) | John Morley
British Dictionary definitions for dissolvent
/ (dɪˈzɒlvənt) /
a rare word for solvent (def. 3)
able to dissolve
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