resolve🔊

To find a solution to (a problem).

To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.

To make a firm decision to do something. To become determined to reach a certain goal or take a certain action.

To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.

To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet.

(reflexive) To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state.

To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.

(music) To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.

(optics) To render visible or distinguishable the parts of something.

(computing) To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up.

To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid).

(reflexive) To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid.

To liquefy (a gas or vapour).

(dated) To disperse or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumour.

(obsolete) To relax; to lie at ease.

(chemistry) To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers.

To solve (an equation, etc.).

Determination; will power.

A determination to do something; a fixed decision.

An act of resolving something; resolution.

(re-solve)