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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
- The relationships between hagfishes, lampreys, and jawed vertebrates are one of the still-unresolved problems in craniate phylogeny.
- 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
- 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
- Their ideological differences are suppressed but not resolved. Times, Sunday Times
- Thoroughly frustrated with the blindness of his countrymen, he resolved to establish a community in America.