<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to come to a definite or earnest decision about; determine (to do something): I have resolved that I shall live to the full.</li><li>Synonyms: confirm</li><li>to separate into constituent or elementary parts; break up; cause or disintegrate (usually followed by into).</li><li>Synonyms: reduce, analyze</li><li>to reduce or convert by, or as by, breaking up or disintegration (usually followed by to or into).</li><li>to convert or transform by any process (often used reflexively).</li><li>to reduce by mental analysis (often followed by into).</li><li>to settle, determine, or state in a formal vote or formal expression of opinion or intention, as of a deliberative assembly.</li><li>to deal with (a question, a matter of uncertainty, etc.) conclusively; settle; solve: to resolve the question before the board.</li><li>to clear away or dispel (doubts, fears, etc.); answer: to resolve any doubts we may have had.</li><li>Chemistry: to separate (a racemic mixture) into optically active components.</li><li>Music: to cause (a voice part or the harmony as a whole) to progress from a dissonance to a consonance.</li><li>Optics: to separate and make visible the individual parts of (an image); distinguish between.</li><li>Medicine/Medical: to cause (swellings, inflammation, etc.) to disappear without suppuration.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a resolution or determination made, as to follow some course of action.</li><li>Synonyms: decision, firmness of purpose or intent; determination.</li></ul>