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{
"term": "resolve",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "resolve",
"heSheIt": "resolves"
},
"pastSimple": "resolved",
"pastParticiple": "resolved",
"ingForm": "resolving"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to find an acceptable solution to a problem or difficulty",
"sensetop": "resolve somethingresolve itself",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "to **resolve an issue/a dispute/a conflict/a crisis**",
"contextForm": "resolve something"
},
{
"text": "Attempts are being made to **resolve the problem** of security in schools."
},
{
"text": "Both sides met in order to try to **resolve their differences**."
},
{
"text": "We hope to **resolve the matter** as soon as possible."
},
{
"text": "Everything is being done to **resolve the situation**."
},
{
"text": "The dispute has not been **fully resolved**."
},
{
"text": "Be patient and the situation may resolve itself.",
"contextForm": "resolve itself"
},
{
"text": "The crisis was finally resolved through high-level negotiations."
},
{
"text": "The family feuding could resolve itself."
},
{
"text": "The matter is not yet fully resolved."
},
{
"text": "The two countries have failed to resolve their differences on this."
},
{
"text": "They met in a last-ditch attempt to resolve their differences."
},
{
"text": "We hope that the dispute can be resolved peacefully."
},
{
"text": "Fortunately, the issue has now been amicably resolved."
},
{
"text": "The UN was supposed to be a forum for resolving disputes by peaceful means."
},
{
"text": "The matter has never really been satisfactorily resolved."
},
{
"text": "The prime minister flew home immediately to try to resolve the crisis."
},
{
"text": "Where can ordinary people get help with resolving family problems?"
}
],
"synonyms": "settle",
"topics": ["Discussion and agreement"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["completely", "fully", "partially"],
"verb + resolve": ["attempt to", "take steps to", "try to"],
"preposition": ["by", "through"],
"phrases": [
"an attempt to resolve something",
"an effort to resolve something",
"a means of resolving something"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to make a definite decision to do something",
"sensetop": "resolve to do somethingresolve (that)…resolve on doing something",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He resolved not to tell her the truth.",
"contextForm": "resolve to do something"
},
{
"text": "He resolved to do something to help the children he had met."
},
{
"text": "She resolved that she would never see him again.",
"contextForm": "resolve (that)…"
},
{
"text": "We had resolved on making an early start.",
"contextForm": "resolve on doing something"
}
],
"topics": ["Preferences and decisions"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to reach a decision by means of a formal vote",
"sensetop": "it is resolved that…resolve that…resolve to do somethingresolve on something",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "It was resolved that the matter be referred to a higher authority.",
"contextForm": "it is resolved that…"
},
{
"text": "They resolved that the matter be referred to a higher authority.",
"contextForm": "resolve that…"
},
{
"text": "The committee unanimously resolved that the party chairman should step down."
},
{
"text": "The Supreme Council resolved to resume control over the national press.",
"contextForm": "resolve to do something"
},
{
"text": "The board of directors has called a meeting to resolve on the merger.",
"contextForm": "resolve on something"
}
],
"topics": ["Preferences and decisions"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈzɒlv/",
"audio": "re/resolve/resolve__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈzɒlvz/",
"audio": "re/resolve/resolves__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈzɒlvd/",
"audio": "re/resolve/resolved__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈzɒlvɪŋ/",
"audio": "re/resolve/resolving__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈzɑːlv/",
"audio": "re/resolve/resolve__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈzɑːlvz/",
"audio": "re/resolve/resolves__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈzɑːlvd/",
"audio": "re/resolve/resolved__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈzɑːlvɪŋ/",
"audio": "re/resolve/resolving__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the senses ‘dissolve, disintegrate’ and ‘solve (a problem)’): from Latin resolvere, from re- (expressing intensive force) + solvere ‘loosen’."
}