resolve

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UK /ɹɪˈzɒlv/ US /ɹɪˈzɑlv/

verb 6noun 3

Collocations

(verb.)

ADV

completely, fully

After months of discussion, the two countries completely resolved their trade disagreement.

successfully | adequately, satisfactorily

amicably, peacefully

The two neighbors finally resolved their disagreement amicably after talking with a mediator.

easily, readily | quickly, rapidly, speedily | immediately | eventually, finally, ultimately

VERB + RESOLVE

attempt to, take steps to, try to

be unable to, fail to

After months of discussions, the company was unable to resolve the dispute with its workers.

help (to) | be difficult to

PREP

by/through

Their disagreement was resolved by talking calmly about what each person needed.

PHRASES

an attempt/effort to resolve sth

The government made a serious effort to resolve the housing shortage before the election.

a means/method/way of resolving sth

Definitions

verb

To find a solution to (a problem).

Exeter. Shall I call in Thambaſſadors my Liege? / King. Not yet my Couſin, til we be reſolude / Of ſome ſerious matters touching vs and France.

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

to resolve a riddle

Resolve my doubt.

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

I resolve to finish this work before I go home.

At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them […]

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

He was resolved by an unexpected event.

Gentlemen, importune me no farther, / For hovv I firmly am reſolu'd you knovv: / That is, not to beſtovv my yongeſt daughter, / Before I haue a husband for the elder: […]

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

After two weeks of bickering, they finally resolved their differences.

noun

Determination; will power.

It took all my resolve to go through with the surgery.

Stripped of all bravado, Cersei breaks, and shows the very scared, vulnerable woman who has kept her emotions at bay. “I don’t want to die,” she whimpers, “Not like this.” It’s all the more moving for coming from a character who built her identity on steely resolve and contempt for such hoary conceits as fear.

A determination to do something; a fixed decision.

And the having individually entertained four such resolves, without perceiving that once brought together, they all mutually expire; this, this ineffable folly, Pierre, brands thee in the forehead for an unaccountable infatuate!

His resolve to die is weakening as he grows accustomed to Sophie's absence, and all his attempts to master irresolution only augment it.

An act of resolving something; resolution.

Some operations require data that, in turn, requires that lightweight components be resolved. In these cases, this option determines whether the user is prompted to approve the resolve or whether components are just resolved automatically.

verb

Alternative spelling of re-solve.