resolve
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Is resolve a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To find a solution to (a problem).Examples: "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."transitive
2. (transitive) To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.Examples: "to resolve a riddle"; "Resolve my doubt."; "If such a dreamy touch should fall, O turn thee round, resolve the doubt, My guardian angel will speak out In that high place, and tell thee all."transitive
3. (intransitive) To make a firm decision to do something. To become determined to reach a certain goal or take a certain action.Examples: "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 […]"intransitive
4. (transitive) To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.Examples: "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: […]"transitive
5. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state.Examples: "O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!"; "And ye Immortal Souls, that once vvere Men, / And novv reſolv’d to Elements agen."intransitivereflexivetransitive
6. (music) To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) Determination; will power.Examples: "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."; "Alan Pardew's current squad has been put together with a relatively low budget but the resolve and unity within the team is priceless."uncountable
2. (countable) A determination to do something; a fixed decision.Examples: "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."countable
3. (countable) An act of resolving something; resolution.Examples: "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."countable
Definition source: Wiktionary