Absolve vs. Dissolve — What's the Difference?

Declare (someone) free from guilt, obligation, or punishment

To cause to pass into solution

To pronounce clear of guilt or blame.

To reduce (solid matter) to liquid form; melt.

To relieve of a requirement or obligation.

To cause to lose definition; blend or blur

To grant a remission of sin to.

To cause to disappear or vanish; dispel

To pardon or remit (a sin).

To break into component parts; disintegrate

(transitive) To set free, release or discharge (from obligations, debts, responsibility etc.).

To bring to an end, as by breaking up; terminate or annul

To resolve; to explain; to solve.

To dismiss (an assembly such as a legislative body).

(transitive) To pronounce free from or give absolution for a penalty, blame, or guilt.

To cause to be moved emotionally or upset.

To pronounce not guilty; to grant a pardon for.

To pass into solution

To grant a remission of sin; to give absolution to.

To become liquid; melt

To remit a sin; to give absolution for a sin.

To lose definition; become blurred or indistinguishable

To finish; to accomplish.

To become disintegrated; disappear

(transitive) To pass a course or test; to gain credit for a class; to qualify academically.

To be broken up into separate parts

To set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment.

To be brought to an end; be annulled or terminated

To free from a penalty; to pardon; to remit (a sin); - said of the sin or guilt.

To be moved or overcome emotionally

To finish; to accomplish.

To make a transition between shots in a cinematic work using a superimposition in which the first shot fades out while the second shot gradually appears.

To resolve or explain.

A transition in a cinematic work consisting of a superimposition in which the first shot fades out while the second shot gradually appears. Also called lap dissolve.

Grant remission of a sin to;

(transitive) To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding.

Let off the hook;

(transitive) To destroy, make disappear.

(transitive) To liquify, melt into a fluid.

(intransitive) To be melted, changed into a fluid.

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

To be disintegrated by such immersion.

(transitive) To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.

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

To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.

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

(intransitive) To resolve itself as by dissolution.

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

To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.

(cinematography) a form of film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next

To separate into competent parts; to disorganize; to break up; hence, to bring to an end by separating the parts, sundering a relation, etc.; to terminate; to destroy; to deprive of force; as, to dissolve a partnership; to dissolve Parliament.

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

To convert into a liquid by means of heat, moisture, etc.,; to melt; to liquefy; to soften.

To solve; to clear up; to resolve.

To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.

To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release; as, to dissolve an injunction.

To waste away; to be dissipated; to be decomposed or broken up.

To become fluid; to be melted; to be liquefied.

To fade away; to fall to nothing; to lose power.

(film) a gradual transition from one scene to the next; the next scene is gradually superimposed as the former scene fades out

Cause to go into a solution;

Pass into a solution;

Become weaker;

Come to an end;

Stop functioning or cohering as a unit;

Cause to lose control emotionally;

Lose control emotionally;

Cause to fade away;

Become or cause to become soft or liquid;

Bring the association of to an end or cause to break up;

Declare void;