resolve

1. (v) (intransitive) To make a firm decision to do something. To become determined to reach a certain goal or take a certain action. 2. (v) (transitive) To find a solution to (a problem). 3. (v) (transitive) To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle. 4. (v) To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet. 5. (v) (transitive) To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain. 6. (n) (uncountable) Determination; will power. 7. (n) (countable) A determination to do something; a fixed decision. 8. (n) (countable) An act of resolving something; resolution. 9. (v) (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state. 10. (v) To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain. 11. (v) (computing) To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up. 12. (v) (music) To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance. 13. (v) (optics) To render visible or distinguishable the parts of something. 14. (v) (medicine, dated) To disperse or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumour. 15. (v) (chemistry) To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers. 16. (v) (rare, transitive) To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid). 17. (v) (rare, intransitive, reflexive) To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid. 18. (v) (obsolete, transitive) To liquefy (a gas or vapour). 19. (v) (obsolete) To relax; to lie at ease. 20. (v) (mathematics, archaic, transitive) To solve (an equation, etc.). 21. (v) Alternative spelling of re-solve. [(transitive) To solve again.]