Sekirov Dictionary

resolve

UK /ɹɪˈzɒlv/US /ɹɪˈzɑlv/

verb 17
noun 3
forms 6

verb17

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to find an answer to a problem, so that it no longer causes trouble
- Exeter. Shall I call in Thambassadors my Liege? / King. Not yet my Cousin, til we be resolude / Of some serious matters touching vs and France. — 1599
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To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.
- Resolve my doubt. — 1591
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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.
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To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.
- He was resolved by an unexpected event.
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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 render visible or distinguishable the parts of something.
To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up.
To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.
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[with oneself] 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 separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers.
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To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
- In health, good air, pleasure, riches, I am resolved it cannot be equalled by any region. — 1596
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(rare) To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid).
- With milke-white Hartes vpon an Iuorie sled, / Thou shalt be drawen amidst the frosen Pooles, / And scale the ysie mountaines lofty tops: / Which with thy beautie will be soone resolu’d. — 1587
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[with oneself] (rare) To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid.
- When the blood stagnates in any part, it first coagulates, then resolves, and turns alkaline. — 1731
(old-fashioned) To disperse or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumour.
(no longer used) To solve (an equation, etc.).
(no longer used) To liquefy (a gas or vapour).
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(no longer used) To relax; to lie at ease.
- resolve himself into all sports and looseness again — 1641

noun3

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Determination; will power.
- It took all my resolve to go through with the surgery.
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A determination to do something; a fixed decision.
- His resolve to die is weakening as he grows accustomed to Sophie's absence, and all his attempts to master irresolution only augment it. — 1995
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An act of resolving something; resolution.
- Still, my mother said she loved me and the conversation soon ended, without resolve; possibly, this is also a dialog which is only beginning, or rather continuing. — 1986

forms

resolv'd · resolved · resolving · resolves · resolveth · resolvest

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