dissolve
verb (used with object)
to make a solution of, as by mixing with a liquid; pass into solution.
were dissolving
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past progressiveof dissolve.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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But you draw closer and those forms seem to flow like melting wax, as if the universe itself were dissolving before your eyes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Ethnic Armenian authorities in Karabakh said on Thursday they were dissolving the breakaway statelet they had defended for three decades.
From Reuters ● Sep. 28, 2023
“I worried that as my visibility as Barack Obama’s wife rose, the other parts of me were dissolving from view,” she writes in her new memoir, Becoming.
From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2018
The Yardbirds were dissolving and guitarist Jimmy Page recruited Reid for his new band.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2016
It was raining so hard the farms and fields outside were dissolving in whites.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
