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solvent definition and meaning

a. Having the power of dissolving; dissolving; as, a solvent fluid.
a. Able or sufficient to pay all just debts; as, a solvent merchant; the estate is solvent.
n. A substance (usually liquid) suitable for, or employed in, solution, or in dissolving something; as, water is the appropriate solvent of most salts, alcohol of resins, ether of fats, and mercury or acids of metals, etc.
n. That which resolves; as, a solvent of mystery.

Crossword clues for solvent

- Able to pay one's debt
- Able to pay one's debts
- Having funds
- In the black drycleaning fluid
- Substance that dissolves another