Verb

(head)

(resolve)

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Verb

(resolv)

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

* Shakespeare

Resolve my doubt.

To solve again.

To make a firm decision to do something.

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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.

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

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

* Shakespeare

O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!

* Dryden

Ye immortal souls, who once were men, / And now resolved to elements again.

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

* Alexander Pope

Resolve me, Reason, which of these is worse, / Want with a full, or with an empty purse?

* Sir Walter Raleigh

In health, good air, pleasure, riches, I am resolved it can not be equalled by any region.

* Milton

We must be resolved how the law can be pure and perspicuous, and yet throw a polluted skirt over these Eleusinian mysteries.

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

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

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

(rare, intransitive, reflexive) To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid.

* Arbuthnot

When the blood stagnates in any part, it first coagulates, then resolves , and turns alkaline.

(obsolete) To liquefy (a gas or vapour).

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

(obsolete) To relax; to lay at ease.

(Ben Jonson)

Verb

(decid)

To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle.

The election will be decided on foreign policies.

We must decide our next move.

Her last-minute goal decided the game.

* Shakespeare

The quarrel toucheth none but us alone; / Betwixt ourselves let us decide it then.

To make a judgment, especially after deliberation.

You must decide between good and evil.

I have decided that it is healthier to walk to work.

* Bible, 1 Kings xx. 40

So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided it.

To cause someone to come to a decision.

* 1920 , , "The Adventure of the Three Gables" (Norton edition, 2005, p. 1537),

It decides me to look into the matter, for if it is worth anyone's while to take so much trouble, there must be something in it.

(obsolete) To cut off; to separate.

* Fuller

Our seat denies us traffic here; / The sea, too near, decides us from the rest.