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US
/ɹiˈzɑɫv/
]
VERB
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understand the meaning of
The question concerning the meaning of life cannot be answered -
reach a decision
he resolved never to drink again -
bring to an end; settle conclusively
The case was decided
The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff
The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance -
find the solution
solve an equation
solve for x - reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation
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make clearly visible
can this image be resolved? -
cause to go into a solution
The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water
NOUN
- a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote
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the trait of being resolute
it was his unshakeable resolution to finish the work
his resoluteness carried him through the battle
How To Use resolve In A Sentence
- Since the extra energy being transferred from one molecule to the next changes the way each absorbs and emits light, the flow of energy can be followed through optical spectroscopy, resolved on a femtosecond timescale.
- Certain animations are still a bit hitchy, especially involving Mayer's car, but there's still time to resolve those before release. AdventureGamers.com
- So, she ran round and round the scaffold with the executioner striking at her, and her grey hair bedabbled with blood; and even when they held her down upon the block she moved her head about to the last, resolved to be no party to her own barbarous murder. A Child's History of England
- -- They lived together; and when Dr. Grant had brought on apoplexy and death, by three great institutionary dinners in one week, they still lived together; for Mary, though perfectly resolved against ever attaching herself to a younger brother again, was long in finding among the dashing representatives, or idle heir apparents, who were at the command of her beauty, and her 20_000L. any one who could satisfy the better taste she had acquired at Mansfield, whose character and manners could authorise a hope of the domestic happiness she had there learnt to estimate, or put Edmund Bertram sufficiently out of her head. Mansfield Park
- Democratic participation, fair and free elections and effective governance need to be institutionalised and made routine, or non-violent means to resolve political crises could be replaced by remobilisation of militias, with significant risk of violent conflict. Crisis Group
- The relationships between hagfishes, lampreys, and jawed vertebrates are one of the still-unresolved problems in craniate phylogeny.
- We may reasonably shake our heads at these romantic resolves. Times, Sunday Times
- When his friends called him a coward his resolve was only hardened. Times, Sunday Times
- It was resolved that the matter be referred to a higher authority.
- But she knew that had she done so — had she so resolved — that which she called her fancy would have been too strong for her. Phineas Finn
