congeal vs dissolve

congeal

verb
  • To change from a liquid to solid state, perhaps due to cold; called to freeze in nontechnical usage. 

  • To become congealed, solidify. 

  • To coagulate, make curdled or semi-solid such as gel or jelly. 

  • To make rigid or immobile. 

dissolve

verb
  • To be melted, changed into a fluid. 

  • 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 destroy, make disappear. 

  • To liquify, melt 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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