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Resolve Resolved Find Clearer Form Resolves Resolving Verb

word resolve
definition
verb
To resolve a problem, argument, or difficulty means to find a solution to it.
We must find a way to resolve these problems before it's too late.
They hoped the crisis could be resolved peacefully.
If you resolve to do something, you make a firm decision to do it.
She resolved to report the matter to the hospital's nursing manager.
She resolved that, if her sister forgot this promise, she would remind her.
If you resolve something into a clearer form, or if it resolves into a clearer form, its shape or the different parts it contains become clear .
...like a musician resolving a confused mass of sound into melodic or harmonic order.
Each of the spirals of light resolved into points.
noun
Resolve is determination to do what you have decided to do.
This will strengthen the American public's resolve to go to war.
inflections resolvesresolvingresolved
cefr-level B2

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