contra vs dissolve

contra

verb
  • To undo; to reverse. 

prep
  • against; contrary or opposed to; in opposition or contrast to 

adv
  • contrary to something 

noun
  • A deal to swap goods or services. 

  • A conservative; originally tied to Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries. 

  • An entry (or account) that cancels another entry (or account). 

  • Any of the musical instruments in the contrabass range, e.g. contrabassoon, contrabass clarinet or, especially, double bass. 

  • A contra dance. 

dissolve

verb
  • 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 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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