Definitions for resolve

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resolve re·solve

Spelling: [ri-zolv]

IPA: /rɪˈzɒlv/

Resolve is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 154 anagrams from letters in resolve (eelorsv).

Definitions for resolve

noun

1. a resolution or determination made, as to follow some course of action.
2. firmness of purpose or intent; determination.

verb (used with object)

1. to come to a definite or earnest decision about; determine (to do something):
2. to separate into constituent or elementary parts; break up; cause or disintegrate (usually followed by into).
3. to reduce or convert by, or as by, breaking up or disintegration (usually followed by to or into).
4. to convert or transform by any process (often used reflexively).
5. to reduce by mental analysis (often followed by into).
6. to settle, determine, or state in a formal vote or formal expression of opinion or intention, as of a deliberative assembly.
7. to deal with (a question, a matter of uncertainty, etc.) conclusively; settle; solve:
8. to clear away or dispel (doubts, fears, etc.); answer:
9. Chemistry. to separate (a racemic mixture) into optically active components.
10. Music. to cause (a voice part or the harmony as a whole) to progress from a dissonance to a consonance.
11. Optics. to separate and make visible the individual parts of (an image); distinguish between.
12. Medicine/Medical. to cause (swellings, inflammation, etc.) to disappear without suppuration.

verb (used without object)

1. to come to a determination; make up one's mind; determine (often followed by on or upon):
2. to break up or disintegrate.
3. to be reduced or changed by breaking up or otherwise (usually followed by to or into).
4. Music. to progress from a dissonance to a consonance.

Origin of resolve

1325-75; Middle English resolven (v.) Latin resolvere to unfasten, loosen, release, equivalent to re- re- + solvere to loosen; see solve

Examples for resolve

To that end we will devote our strength, our resources, and our firmness of resolve.

We will meet aggression and bad faith with resolve and strength.

Some have unwisely chosen to test America's resolve, and have found it firm.

Modi has ordered his army commanders to strike back hard at the Line of Control to demonstrate Indian resolve.

Come not near us, if you have resolve to be undutiful: but this, after what I have written, I hope you cannot be.

It is a test of our courage—of our resolve—of our wisdom—our essential democracy.

They were born in 51 countries and speak 59 foreign languages, but they seemed bound by a single purpose and resolve.

There is the will of the people; the resolve of the political class; the courage of the media; and the authority of the courts.

I ask them how can they resolve that with what they are doing.

The city may have learned something about resolve in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.