(~s, resolving, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
To ~ a problem, argument, or difficulty means to find a solution to it. (FORMAL)
We must find a way to ~ these problems before it’s too late...
VERB: V n
2.
If you ~ to do something, you make a firm decision to do it. (FORMAL)
She ~d to report the matter to the hospital’s nursing manager...
She ~d that, if Mimi forgot this promise, she would remind her.
VERB: V to-inf, V that
3.
Resolve is determination to do what you have decided to do. (FORMAL)
This will strengthen the American public’s ~ to go to war.
= determination
N-VAR: oft N to-inf