resolving

Verb

resolve (third-person singular simple present resolves, present participle resolving, simple past and past participle resolved)

1. (transitive) To find a solution to (a problem).
   • 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.1599 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Cronicle History of Henry the Fift, […] (First Quarto), London: […] Thomas Creede, for Tho[mas] Millington, and Iohn Busby […], published 1600, →OCLC...

   Synonyms:

   decipher, upsolve, work out, absolve, get to the bottom of, iron out, meliorate, puzzle out, ravel, reason out

2. (transitive) To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.
   • to resolve a riddle
3. (intransitive) 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. (transitive) To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.
   • He was resolved by an unexpected event.
5. To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet.
   • After two weeks of bickering, they finally resolved their differences.
6. (intransitive, reflexive, transitive) To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state.
   • The House immediately resolved itself into a Committee on the Bill.

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