verb
- Bring to an end; settle conclusively.
- usage: "The case was decided"; "The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff"; "The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance"
- synonyms: decide, settle, resolve, adjudicate
- Reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation.
- Reach a decision.
- usage: "he resolved never to drink again"
- Understand the meaning of.
- usage: "The question concerning the meaning of life cannot be answered"
- Make clearly visible.
- usage: "can this image be resolved"
- synonyms: resolve
- Find the solution.
- usage: "solve an equation"; "solve for x"
- Cause to go into a solution.
- usage: "The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water"
adjective
- Determined.
- usage: "she was firmly resolved to be a doctor"; "single-minded in his determination to stop smoking"
- synonyms: single-minded
- Explained or answered.
- usage: "mysteries solved and unsolved; problems resolved and unresolved"
- synonyms: solved
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