Usually means: Determine a solution to problems.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word resolve:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. resolve: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. resolve: Merriam-Webster
  3. resolve: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. resolve: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. resolve: Collins English Dictionary
  6. resolve: Vocabulary.com
  7. Resolve, resolve: Wordnik
  8. resolve: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. resolve: Wiktionary
  10. resolve: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. resolve: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. resolve: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. resolve (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. resolve: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Resolve (Lagwagon album), Resolve (Last Tuesday album), Resolve (disambiguation), Resolve (song), Resolve, The Resolve: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Resolve: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. resolve: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. resolve: Rhymezone
  19. resolve: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. resolve: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. RESOLVE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. resolve: FreeDictionary.org
  23. resolve: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. resolve: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. resolve: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. resolve: Dictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. resolve: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. resolve: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. resolve: Netlingo
  2. resolve: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. resolve: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. RESOLVE: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. RESOLVE: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Resolve: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. resolve: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See resolvable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To find a solution to (a problem).
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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