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English word resolve comes from Latin solvo, Latin re-, German resolvieren

solvo (Latin)

Cancel, remove, destroy. Dissolve, break up, separate. Loosen, untie, undo; free [up], release, acquit, exempt. Pay [up], fulfil. Relax, slacken, weaken. Solve, explain. To dismiss (troops). To get rid of (feelings). To let down (hair). To open (a letter). To raise (a siege). To set sail (ships). To undermine. To unfurl.

re- (Latin)

Again; prefix added to various words to indicate an action being done again, or like the other usages indicated above under English.. Back, backwards.

resolvieren (German)

resolvere (Latin)

resolver (Old French)

(reflexive, se resolver) to resolve oneself; to become resolved.

resolven (Middle English)

resolve (English)

(chemistry) To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers.. (computing) To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up.. (intransitive) To make a firm decision to do something.. (medicine, dated) To disperse or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumour.. (music) To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.. [...]

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