resolve
/ɹɪˈzɑlv/ verb B1- To find a solution to (a problem).
- To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain. · to resolve a riddle
- To make a firm decision to do something. To become determined to reach a certain goal or take a certain action. · I resolve to finish this work before I go home.
- To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle. · He was resolved by an unexpected event.
- 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.
- To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state. · The House immediately resolved itself into a Committee on the Bill.
- To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
- To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.
He/she/it resolves · Past resolved · Past participle resolved · -ing form resolving
Verb forms
- Base form
- resolve
- He/she/it
- resolves
- Past
- resolved
- Past participle
- resolved
- -ing form
- resolving
From the library
This worried Dorothy a little, but she knew that only the Great Oz could help her get to Kansas again, so she bravely resolved not to turn back.
While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth; but no one can love who has not a heart, and so I am resolved to ask Oz to give me one.
WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf’s right to eat him.
They replied, “The dew.” The Ass resolved that he would live only upon dew, and in a short time died of hunger.
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