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solution

/səˈl(j)uːʃən/ verb C2
  1. To treat with a solution. (transitive)

He/she/it solutions · Past solutioned · Past participle solutioned · -ing form solutioning

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Verb forms

Base form
solution
He/she/it
solutions
Past
solutioned
Past participle
solutioned
-ing form
solutioning

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Instead of having watered his cabbage with arsenic, he had watered it this time with a solution of salts, having their basis in strychnine, strychnos colubrina, as the learned term it.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 532 · C1
"No doubt you have outlined the solution in your own mind."
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 86 · B2
He dipped into this bottle or that, drawing out a few drops of each with his glass pipette, and finally brought a test-tube containing a solution over to the table.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 58 · B2
And I even attempted, more than once, for my own private satisfaction, to employ his methods in their solution, though with indifferent success.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 2 · C1

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