resolve

Definition

  • verb: to find an answer or solution to (something)
  • verb: to change by disintegration
  • synonyms: dissolve, break up, analyze

Examples

  • The image eventually 'resolved into' the shape of a person's body.

  • The issue of the book's authorship was never 'resolved'.

  • I was 'resolved' [='determined'] to find out the truth.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) in this Teacher of yours. Yes, I have. And I have given him an angel to do his will. For surely there is no better soldier for God than my Silas. I firmly resolve, with the help of thy grace, to confess my sins... ...to do penance and to amend my life. Amen. I chastise my body. (..)
    2006 The Da Vinci Code