Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun dissolvent

1 sense of dissolvent

Sense 1
solvent, dissolvent, dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent -- (a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances; "the solvent does not change its state in forming a solution")
       => medium -- (an intervening substance through which something is achieved; "the dissolving medium is called a solvent")