Verb

To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other.

To be mingled or mixed.

* Irving

There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality.

* To feel no other breezes than are blown / Through its tall woods with high romances blent - , 1884

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(obsolete) To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.

(Spenser)

Verb

(dissolv)

To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding

''The ruling party or coalition sometimes dissolves parliament early when the polls are favorable, hoping to reconvene with a larger majority

To destroy, make disappear

To liquify, melt into a fluid

* Shakespeare

as if the world were all dissolved to tears

To be melted, changed into a fluid

(chemistry) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or gas.

(chemistry) To be disintegrated by such immersion.

To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.

* Shakespeare

Nothing can dissolve us.

To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.

* Fairfax

Down fell the duke, his joints dissolved asunder.

* The Declaration of Independence

For one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another.

(legal) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.

to dissolve an injunction

(cinematography) To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in.

To resolve itself as by dissolution

(obsolete) To solve; to clear up; to resolve.

* Tennyson

dissolved the mystery

* Bible, Daniel v. 16

Make interpretations and dissolve doubts.

To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.

* Dryden

Angels dissolved in hallelujahs lie.