| resolve | |
| 1. v. To find a solution to (a problem). | |
| 2. v. To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain. | |
| to resolve a riddle | |
| 3. v. To solve again. | |
| I’ll have to resolve the equation with the new values. | |
| 4. v. (intransitive) To make a firm decision to do something. | |
| I resolve to finish this work before I go home. | |
| 5. v. To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle. | |
| He was resolved by an unexpected event. | |
| 6. v. To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet. | |
| After two weeks of bickering, they finally resolved their differences. | |
| 7. v. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state. | |
| 8. v. To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain. | |
| 9. v. (music) To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance. | |
| 10. v. (optics) To render visible or distinguishable the parts of something. | |
| 11. v. (computing) To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up. | |
| 12. v. (rare, transitive) To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid). | |
| 13. v. (rare, intransitive, reflexive) To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid. | |
| 14. v. (obsolete, transitive) To liquefy (a gas or vapour). | |
| 15. v. (medicine, dated) To disperse or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumour. | |
| 16. v. (obsolete) To relax; to lay at ease. | |
| 17. v. (chemistry) To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers. | |
| 18. n. Determination, will power. | |
| It took all my resolve to go through with the surgery. | |
