(n.) The act or process of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom.
(v. t.) To free from an illusion; to disillusionize.
Example Sentences:
(1) She devoured political science texts, took evening classes at Goldsmiths college, and performed at protests and fundraisers, but became disillusioned.
(2) I believe that it is too valuable to be destroyed in a fit of resentment, pique or disillusion.
(3) It is a waste of taxpayer’s money.” A third critic wrote: “What China’s National Football Team gives its fans is decades of consistent disappointment.” Some disillusioned fans called for Team China’s manager, Gao Hongbo, to be sacked and replaced with Lang Ping, the revered coach of China’s female volleyball team.
(4) The Lewinsky affair did not leave him disillusioned and Engskov's eyes brighten as he recalls his time in Washington: "It was an idealistic time.
(5) There is a growing fear among Labour pollsters that the some of the vote Labour harvested from disillusioned Liberal Democrats has now moved on to either to the Greens or to Ukip.
(6) "In the conclusion of the tragedy by Chekohov, everyone is disappointed, disillusioned, embittered, heartbroken, but alive."
(7) "The impact can be that the individual becomes disillusioned or traumatised, it can impact on health or on relationships with partners and colleagues," Moutou says.
(8) For the growing numbers of voters disillusioned by Westminster politics, the prospect of an SNP bloc in parliament providing a pressure from the left on Labour is an attractive one.
(9) A mansions tax would appeal to the disillusioned left of the party.
(10) This includes the prevention of legal action against the doctors if the treatment fails or if the transsexual later is disillusioned or regrets what has been done.
(11) Underlying factors for this disillusion with the car include road congestion and spiralling costs of driving, particularly for the young: car insurance has increased by 80% for young people in the past two years, for example, compared with a 20% rise for those aged 50, while numbers of those aged 17-19 who take the driving test have dropped by a fifth in the past five years.
(12) And foolish, too, to deny that across Europe these elections will be a major opportunity for single-issue and extremist parties – not always the same thing –to make a play for the support of insecure, disillusioned and plain angry voters in the 28 member states.
(13) Instead, when we meet her at the beginning of the series, Nyborg is more concerned with moving house – presumably supplying viewers with shots of a variety of stylish new light fittings and perplexing floor plans to obsess over – than a political party with which she is increasingly disillusioned.
(14) BTTF was largely aimed at kids who didn't know much about their parents' generation (and that was the source of its box office strength), but Peggy Sue was very much seen through the eyes of the disillusioned divorcee, played by Kathleen Turner.
(15) Caine’s Guardian reader may be decrepit and disillusioned but still oozes wit and discerning taste.
(16) The government’s hold over main-stream media proprietors has meant that disillusioned liberal commentators who may have supported Erdogan’s reform efforts in the past have found themselves out of a job.
(17) "There's a significant proportion of the Labour party - 70 or 80 MPs - that are so disillusioned with the leadership of the party that they'd prefer to be in opposition than in coalition.
(18) The latter was disillusioning for Patterson, a lifelong indie music fan, especially when the paper published what she terms a “tits ’n’ cocaine” cover for a feature on the Miami scene.
(19) He had also grown disillusioned with his own role as a propagandist, his contorted attempt to distinguish between 'honest' and 'dishonest' propaganda evidently having failed.
(20) While many employees feel disillusioned and “oppressed” as they feel their jobs and responsibilities are being usurped by Charles’ aides, she claims.
Dissolution
Definition:
(n.) The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation.
(n.) Change from a solid to a fluid state; solution by heat or moisture; liquefaction; melting.
(n.) Change of form by chemical agency; decomposition; resolution.
(n.) The dispersion of an assembly by terminating its sessions; the breaking up of a partnership.
(n.) The extinction of life in the human body; separation of the soul from the body; death.
(n.) The state of being dissolved, or of undergoing liquefaction.
(n.) The new product formed by dissolving a body; a solution.
(n.) Destruction of anything by the separation of its parts; ruin.
(n.) Corruption of morals; dissipation; dissoluteness.
Example Sentences:
(1) The agent present in the serum which causes dissolution of the fibrin clot was isolated and identified as pepsinogen.
(2) A 2-fold increase in the dissolution rate was observed when the same number of particles was immobilized without macrophages.
(3) Unaltered surface enamel of extracted human teeth was subjected to tests of resistance to dissolution in 10 mM acetic acid at pH 4.0 and 10 mM EDTA at pH 7.4 in a miniature continuous flow system.
(4) At 30 days after injection both stains revealed cellular debris and glial reactions characteristic of cellular dissolution.
(5) The in vitro dissolution study carried out using dynamic dialysis revealed that the release of adriamycin from these particles follows a bi-phasic pattern.
(6) The retreating rate constants deduced from the dissolution results were well coincident with the values directly determined by the needle penetration method, suggesting good applicability of the proposed equation.
(7) However, in some patients absorption of the drug is markedly sensitive to changes in dissolution rate and new pharmacopoeal standards should not be defined until very rapidly-dissolving formulations have been studied.
(8) Instead, a repetitive, stepwise dissolution pattern was observed.
(9) In ancillary studies, multiple cycles of direct dissolution of UCB crystals revealed a progressive decrease in aqueous solubility of UCB as fine crystals were removed; this effect was minimal in CHCl3.
(10) Reductions in dissolution rates in a continuous-flow system could best be interpreted by assuming that they reflected changes in the area of the hydrophilic solid exposed to the solvent.
(11) Applications from Serbia, which account for 10% of the total, stem mostly from the dissolution of former Yugoslavia: payment of army reservists, access to savings in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, pensions in Kosovo.
(12) The minimal advantage in rapidity of stone dissolution offered by tham E over tham is more than offset by the considerably increased potential for toxic side effects.
(13) The differences in the amounts of rapidly releasable calcium were attributed to different kinetics of calcium phosphate and calcium oxalate dissolution.
(14) The steps in the model are the drug elimination rate in the precornea and anterior chamber, the rate of drug dissolution, the rate of drug penetration into the cornea, and the rate of drug transport into the aqueous humor.
(15) Two commercial slow-release potassium chloride tablets, Slow-K and Addi-K have the characteristics of slow-release in the different dissolution conditions.
(16) Two consequences of these conditions are (1) patient classification into syndrome types (e.g., phonological dysgraphia, agrammatism, and so forth) can play no useful role in research concerned with issues about the structure of normal cognitive functioning or its dissolution under conditions of brain damage; and (2) only single-patient studies allow valid inferences about the structure of cognitive mechanisms from the analysis of impaired performance.
(17) Areas suggestive of cellular dissolution and disorganization were also reported in experimental parathyroids
(18) Speaking in Adelaide on Thursday as the government struggles to turn around its polling in South Australia before a possible double dissolution election, the prime minister went on the attack and said Labor was making major policy announcements on the fly.
(19) Although all three formulations were shown to have similar dissolution profiles, dissolution of chlorpropamide was pH-dependent in vitro.
(20) However, if solubility is considered as a function of pH at equilibrium, i.e., the final pH after the dissolution products have entered the solvent--a model more akin to the in vivo situation--hydroxyapatite is the conspicuously more soluble of the two minerals.