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What does resolve mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word resolve? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To find a solution to (a problem).
  2. (transitive) To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.
  3. (transitive) To solve again.
  4. (intransitive) To make a firm decision to do something.
  5. (transitive) To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.
  6. To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet.
  7. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state.
  8. To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
  9. (music) To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.
  10. (computing) To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up.
  11. (rare, transitive) To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid).
  12. (rare, intransitive, reflexive) To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid.
  13. (obsolete, transitive) To liquefy (a gas or vapour).
  14. (medicine) To disperse or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumour.
  15. (obsolete) To relax; to lay at ease.
  16. (chemistry) To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers.
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