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.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Fenella Saunders, magazine=(American Scientist)

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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

(en verb)

(now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.

* Prior

Till happy Chance reverts the cruel scene.

* Thomson

The tumbling stream / Reverted , plays in undulating flow.

To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.

To cause to return to a former condition.

(now rare) To return; to come back.

* Shakespeare

So that my arrows / Would have reverted to my bow again.

To return to the possession of.

# (legal) Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.

To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.

To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=2 citation , passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety.  She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}

(biology) To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.

To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.

To return to a previous subject of discourse or thought.

(intransitive, in Muslim usage, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) To convert to Islam.

* 1995 , Wiz?rat al-I?l?m wa-al-Thaq?fah, Sudanow: Volume 20

He added that Islam is the religion of justice which rejects injustice, referring to the case of Mike Tyson and how he has become a real problem to the West since he reverted to Islam.

* 1997 , Islamic Society of North America, Islamic horizons

The mission of 'translating' the Qur'an had preoccupied Pickthall's mind since he reverted to Islam.

* 2003 , Islamic Revival Association, Al Jumu?ah: Volume 15, Issues 7-12

But once he reverted to Islam, he attended as many lectures as he could, listened to Islamic tapes and the recitations of Qur'an. Subtly and gradually his moods were stabilized, and he started to have positive outlook on life.

(intransitive, nonstandard, proscribed) To reply; to come back.

(math) To treat (a series, such as y = a + bx + cx² + ...'', where one variable ''y'' is expressed in powers of a second variable ''x''), so as to find the second variable ''x'' expressed in a series arranged in powers of ''y .