The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word DISSOLVING
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What does DISSOLVING mean?
DISSOLVING verb- To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding.
- To destroy, make disappear.
- To liquify, melt into a fluid.
- To be melted, changed into a fluid.
- To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or gas.
- To be disintegrated by such immersion.
- To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.
- To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
- To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.
- To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in.
- To resolve itself as by dissolution.
- To solve; to clear up; to resolve.
- To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
- The act by which something dissolves.