{
    "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’."
}