resolve
//ɹɪˈzɒlv//
Forms
- present (v1)
- resolve
- past (v2)
- resolved
- past participle (v3)
- resolved
- present participle
- resolving
- 3rd person singular
- resolves
- Plural
- resolves
Definitions
1.To find a solution to (a problem).
2.To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.
3.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.
4.To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.
- He was resolved by an unexpected event.
1.Determination; will power.
- It took all my resolve to go through with the surgery.
- I wish for unending resolve, to always get up when I fall.
- Alan Pardew's current squad has been put together with a relatively low budget but the resolve and unity within the team is priceless.
2.A determination to do something; a fixed decision.
- His resolve to die is weakening as he grows accustomed to Sophie's absence, and all his attempts to master irresolution only augment it.
3.An act of resolving something; resolution.
- Still, my mother said she loved me and the conversation soon ended, without resolve; possibly, this is also a dialog which is only beginning, or rather continuing.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2570
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English resolven, from Old French resolver, a learned borrowing of Latin resolvō (“loosen, thaw, melt, resolve”), equivalent to re- + solve.
Piecewise doublet of re-solve.