To discharge (for example, a claim or debt); to clear off, to pay off; to fulfil.
To declare or find innocent or not guilty.
Followed by of (and formerly by from): to discharge, release, or set free from a burden, duty, liability, or obligation, or from an accusation or charge.
To bear or conduct oneself; to perform one's part.
To clear oneself.
To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.
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.
a form of film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next