bury vs dissolve

bury

verb
  • To put an end to; to abandon. 

  • To render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; drown out. 

  • To outlive. 

  • To score a goal. 

  • To place in the ground. 

  • To suppress and hide away in one's mind. 

  • To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance. 

  • To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb. 

  • To kill or murder. 

noun
  • A borough; a manor 

dissolve

verb
  • To destroy, make disappear. 

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

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

  • To be disintegrated by such immersion. 

  • To disperse, drive apart a group of persons. 

  • To resolve itself as by dissolution. 

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

  • To liquify, melt into a fluid. 

  • To be melted, changed into a fluid. 

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

  • To relax by pleasure; to make powerless. 

  • To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release. 

noun
  • a form of film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next 

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