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▸ verb: (transitive) To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To make a firm decision to do something. To become determined to reach a certain goal or take a certain action.
▸ verb: (transitive) To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.
▸ verb: To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet.
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state.
▸ verb: To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
▸ verb: (music) To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.
▸ verb: (optics) To render visible or distinguishable the parts of something.
▸ verb: (computing) To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up.
▸ verb: (rare, transitive) To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid).
▸ verb: (rare, intransitive, reflexive) To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid.
▸ verb: (obsolete, transitive) To liquefy (a gas or vapour).
▸ verb: (medicine, dated) To disperse or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumour.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To relax; to lie at ease.
▸ verb: (chemistry) To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers.
▸ verb: (mathematics, archaic, transitive) To solve (an equation, etc.).
▸ noun: (uncountable) Determination; will power.
▸ noun: (countable) A determination to do something; a fixed decision.
▸ noun: (countable) An act of resolving something; resolution.
▸ verb: Alternative spelling of re-solve [(transitive) To solve again.]
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solve,
decide,
settle,
resolution,
answer,
declaration,
conclude,
purpose,
firmness,
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