dissolve vs extinguish

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 

extinguish

verb
  • To destroy or abolish something. 

  • To obscure or eclipse something. 

  • To hunt down (a species) to extinction. 

  • To bring about the extinction of a conditioned reflex. 

  • To put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench. 

  • To die out. 

  • To kill. 

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