See resolve on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English resolven, from Old French resolver, a learned borrowing of Latin resolvō (“loosen, thaw, melt, resolve”), equivalent to re- + solve. Piecewise doublet of re-solve.",
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"ref": "1599 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Cronicle History of Henry the Fift, […] (First Quarto), London: […] Thomas Creede, for Tho[mas] Millington, and Iohn Busby […], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:",
"text": "Exeter. Shall I call in Thambaſſadors my Liege? / King. Not yet my Couſin, til we be reſolude / Of ſome ſerious matters touching vs and France.",
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"To find a solution to (a problem)."
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"(transitive) To find a solution to (a problem)."
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"_dis1": "39 2 2 2 3 2 3 4 3 17 5 5 3 4 1 3 3",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḥalla",
"sense": "to find a solution to",
"word": "حَلَّ"
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"sense": "to find a solution to",
"word": "решавам"
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"sense": "to find a solution to",
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to find a solution to",
"word": "解決"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jiějué",
"sense": "to find a solution to",
"word": "解决"
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to find a solution to",
"word": "vyřešit"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "to find a solution to",
"word": "oplossen"
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to find a solution to",
"word": "solvi"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to find a solution to",
"word": "ratkaista"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to find a solution to",
"word": "résoudre"
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"sense": "to find a solution to",
"word": "lösen"
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"sense": "to find a solution to",
"word": "auflösen"
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"roman": "dialúō",
"sense": "to find a solution to",
"word": "διαλύω"
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"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "samādhān",
"sense": "to find a solution to",
"word": "समाधान"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to find a solution to",
"word": "megold"
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"sense": "to find a solution to",
"word": "megfejt"
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"sense": "to find a solution to",
"word": "scaoil"
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"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to find a solution to",
"word": "risolvere"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to find a solution to",
"word": "accordarsi"
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"alt": "とく",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "toku",
"sense": "to find a solution to",
"word": "解く"
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"alt": "ぶんかいする",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "bunkai suru",
"sense": "to find a solution to",
"word": "分解する"
},
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "haegyeolhada",
"sense": "to find a solution to",
"word": "해결하다"
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"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "to find a solution to",
"word": "išspręsti"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to find a solution to",
"word": "whakatatū"
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"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "to find a solution to",
"word": "resolven"
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"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to find a solution to",
"word": "resòlver"
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"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to find a solution to",
"word": "solucionar"
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"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "hal kardan",
"sense": "to find a solution to",
"word": "حل کردن"
},
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to find a solution to",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "rozwiązać"
},
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"_dis1": "39 2 2 2 3 2 3 4 3 17 5 5 3 4 1 3 3",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to find a solution to",
"tags": [
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"word": "rozwiązywać"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to find a solution to",
"word": "resolver"
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"_dis1": "39 2 2 2 3 2 3 4 3 17 5 5 3 4 1 3 3",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to find a solution to",
"word": "decidir"
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to find a solution to",
"word": "rezolva"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rešátʹ",
"sense": "to find a solution to",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "реша́ть"
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"roman": "rešítʹ",
"sense": "to find a solution to",
"tags": [
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"word": "реши́ть"
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"sense": "to find a solution to",
"word": "resolver"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "to find a solution to",
"word": "solventar"
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"_dis1": "39 2 2 2 3 2 3 4 3 17 5 5 3 4 1 3 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to find a solution to",
"word": "zanjar"
},
{
"_dis1": "39 2 2 2 3 2 3 4 3 17 5 5 3 4 1 3 3",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to find a solution to",
"word": "lösa"
},
{
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"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "pariṣkariñcu",
"sense": "to find a solution to",
"word": "పరిష్కరించు"
}
]
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"examples": [
{
"text": "to resolve a riddle",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:",
"text": "Resolve my doubt.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XLIII, page 66:",
"text": "If such a dreamy touch should fall,\nO turn thee round, resolve the doubt,\nMy guardian angel will speak out\nIn that high place, and tell thee all.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain."
],
"id": "en-resolve-en-verb-R740yvge",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain."
],
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"transitive"
],
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"_dis1": "1 54 7 4 5 2 9 2 2 3 1 1 1 2 2 3 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain",
"word": "ratkaista"
},
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain",
"word": "selvittää"
},
{
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain",
"word": "selittää"
},
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"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "to reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain",
"word": "resolven"
}
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"examples": [
{
"text": "I resolve to finish this work before I go home.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1762, Charles Johnstone, The Reverie; or, A Flight to the Paradise of Fools, volume 2, Dublin: […] Dillon Chamberlaine, →OCLC, page 202:",
"text": "At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them […]",
"type": "quote"
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"To make a firm decision to do something. To become determined to reach a certain goal or take a certain action."
],
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"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To make a firm decision to do something. To become determined to reach a certain goal or take a certain action."
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"_dis1": "2 7 40 8 7 3 6 5 3 3 2 1 1 4 4 2 2",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to make a firm decision",
"word": "resoldre"
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"_dis1": "2 7 40 8 7 3 6 5 3 3 2 1 1 4 4 2 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to make a firm decision",
"word": "決定"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 7 40 8 7 3 6 5 3 3 2 1 1 4 4 2 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "juédìng",
"sense": "to make a firm decision",
"word": "决定"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 7 40 8 7 3 6 5 3 3 2 1 1 4 4 2 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to make a firm decision",
"word": "決心"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 7 40 8 7 3 6 5 3 3 2 1 1 4 4 2 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "juéxīn",
"sense": "to make a firm decision",
"word": "决心"
},
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"_dis1": "2 7 40 8 7 3 6 5 3 3 2 1 1 4 4 2 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to make a firm decision",
"word": "besluiten"
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"_dis1": "2 7 40 8 7 3 6 5 3 3 2 1 1 4 4 2 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to make a firm decision",
"word": "beslissen"
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{
"_dis1": "2 7 40 8 7 3 6 5 3 3 2 1 1 4 4 2 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to make a firm decision",
"word": "zich voornemen"
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{
"_dis1": "2 7 40 8 7 3 6 5 3 3 2 1 1 4 4 2 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make a firm decision",
"word": "päättää"
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{
"_dis1": "2 7 40 8 7 3 6 5 3 3 2 1 1 4 4 2 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to make a firm decision",
"word": "se résoudre"
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"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "saṅkalp",
"sense": "to make a firm decision",
"word": "संकल्प"
},
{
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to make a firm decision",
"word": "elhatároz"
},
{
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"alt": "けっていする",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kettei suru",
"sense": "to make a firm decision",
"word": "決定する"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 7 40 8 7 3 6 5 3 3 2 1 1 4 4 2 2",
"alt": "けっしんする",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kessin suru",
"sense": "to make a firm decision",
"word": "決心する"
},
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"_dis1": "2 7 40 8 7 3 6 5 3 3 2 1 1 4 4 2 2",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "dajimhada",
"sense": "to make a firm decision",
"word": "다짐하다"
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{
"_dis1": "2 7 40 8 7 3 6 5 3 3 2 1 1 4 4 2 2",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "gyeolsimhada",
"sense": "to make a firm decision",
"word": "결심하다"
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"_dis1": "2 7 40 8 7 3 6 5 3 3 2 1 1 4 4 2 2",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "gyeoljeonghada",
"sense": "to make a firm decision",
"word": "결정하다"
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"sense": "to make a firm decision",
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"word": "postanowić"
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"sense": "to make a firm decision",
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"word": "postanawiać"
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"sense": "to make a firm decision",
"word": "resolver"
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "to make a firm decision",
"word": "conchide"
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"sense": "to make a firm decision",
"word": "hotărî"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "rešátʹsja",
"sense": "to make a firm decision",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "реша́ться"
},
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "rešítʹsja",
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"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "реши́ться"
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"roman": "postanovítʹ",
"sense": "to make a firm decision",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "постанови́ть"
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"sense": "to make a firm decision",
"word": "resolver"
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"sense": "to make a firm decision",
"word": "besluta"
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"sense": "to make a firm decision",
"word": "resolvera"
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},
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],
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"text": "He was resolved by an unexpected event.",
"type": "example"
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{
"ref": "c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 210, column 2, lines 50–51:",
"text": "Gentlemen, importune me no farther, / For hovv I firmly am reſolu'd you knovv: / That is, not to beſtovv my yongeſt daughter, / Before I haue a husband for the elder: […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle."
],
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"(transitive) To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle."
],
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"transitive"
]
},
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{
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},
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"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
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"name": "Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
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"source": "w+disamb"
},
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"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "16 1 1 1 6 3 12 15 4 8 3 3 6 2 2 1 6 1 7 2",
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"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "15 2 2 2 6 3 11 14 3 8 5 4 4 2 2 2 5 2 6 2",
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"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
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"source": "w+disamb"
},
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"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
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"source": "w+disamb"
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"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
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{
"text": "After two weeks of bickering, they finally resolved their differences.",
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}
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[
"agree",
"agree"
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[
"peace",
"peace"
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{
"_dis1": "1 3 1 9 61 1 6 2 2 2 1 1 1 2 1 5 1",
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to come to an agreement",
"word": "ratkaista"
}
]
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"ref": "c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:",
"text": "O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1665 (first performance), John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, or, The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for H[enry] Herringman […], published 1667, →OCLC, Act II, scene (please specify |scene=i or ii), page 15:",
"text": "And ye Immortal Souls, that once vvere Men, / And novv reſolv’d to Elements agen.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state."
],
"id": "en-resolve-en-verb-JGBl3qEZ",
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[
"constituent",
"constituent"
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[
"decompose",
"decompose"
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[
"disintegrate",
"disintegrate"
],
[
"constitution",
"constitution"
],
[
"primeval",
"primeval"
]
],
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"(transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state."
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"intransitive",
"reflexive",
"transitive"
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"_dis1": "1 2 1 1 3 66 3 3 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 6 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"word": "разлагам"
},
{
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to break down into constituent parts",
"word": "hajottaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 1 1 3 66 3 3 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 6 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to break down into constituent parts",
"word": "smantellare"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 1 1 3 66 3 3 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 6 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to break down into constituent parts",
"word": "scomporre"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 1 1 3 66 3 3 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 6 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to break down into constituent parts",
"word": "disintegrare"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 1 1 3 66 3 3 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 6 1",
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "to break down into constituent parts",
"word": "resolven"
}
]
},
{
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{
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],
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{
"ref": "1596, Walter Raleigh, The discovery of the large, rich, and beautiful Empire of Guiana, with a relation of the great and golden city of Manoa:",
"text": "In health, good air, pleasure, riches, I am resolved it cannot be equalled by any region.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, book 9:",
"text": "We must be resolved how the law can be pure and perspicuous, and yet throw a polluted skirt over these Eleusinian mysteries.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1733 (indicated as 1732), [Alexander] Pope, Of the Use of Riches, an Epistle to the Right Honourable Allen Lord Bathurst, London: […] J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver […], →OCLC, page 16:",
"text": "Reſolve me Reaſon, vvhich of theſe is vvorſe, / VVant vvith a full, or vvith an empty purſe: […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "She was proceeding in this manner when the surgeon entered the room. The lieutenant immediately asked how his patient did. But he resolved him only by saying, \"Better, I believe, than he would have been by this time, if I had not been called; and even as it is, perhaps it would have been lucky if I could have been called sooner.\"",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain."
],
"id": "en-resolve-en-verb-DTy8Jgwb",
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{
"_dis1": "0 4 3 4 3 1 49 27 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause to perceive or understand, to convince; to assure; to make certain",
"word": "ratkaista"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 4 3 4 3 1 49 27 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 1",
"code": "fi",
"english": "to convince",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause to perceive or understand, to convince; to assure; to make certain",
"word": "vakuuttaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 4 3 4 3 1 49 27 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 1",
"code": "fi",
"english": "make certain",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause to perceive or understand, to convince; to assure; to make certain",
"word": "varmistaa"
}
]
},
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{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Music",
"orig": "en:Music",
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"Art",
"Sound",
"Culture",
"Energy",
"Society",
"Nature",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance."
],
"id": "en-resolve-en-verb-KRMI10VE",
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[
"music",
"music"
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[
"chord",
"chord"
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[
"dissonance",
"dissonance"
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[
"consonance",
"consonance"
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],
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"(music) To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance."
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"lifestyle",
"music"
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"word": "purkaa"
},
{
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"word": "scaoil"
},
{
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"code": "it",
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"word": "accordare"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 1 1 1 1 29 58 0 2 1 1 0 1 1 1 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance",
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],
"word": "rozwiązać"
},
{
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance",
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"imperfective"
],
"word": "rozwiązywać"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 1 1 1 1 29 58 0 2 1 1 0 1 1 1 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance",
"word": "resolver"
}
]
},
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"Sciences",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
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}
],
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"ref": "2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist:",
"text": "The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.",
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}
],
"glosses": [
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[
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"optics"
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],
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"(optics) To render visible or distinguishable the parts of something."
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"engineering",
"natural-sciences",
"optics",
"physical-sciences",
"physics"
]
},
{
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{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Computing",
"orig": "en:Computing",
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"Technology",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
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{
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"parents": [],
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],
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[
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[
"hostname",
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[
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[
"source code",
"source code"
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[
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"look up"
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],
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"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"sciences"
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"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "11 2 1 2 4 3 3 5 3 53 3 2 1 3 1 3 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jiěxī",
"sense": "to find IP address or entity",
"word": "解析"
},
{
"_dis1": "11 2 1 2 4 3 3 5 3 53 3 2 1 3 1 3 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to find IP address or entity",
"word": "selvittää IP-osoite"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
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{
"ref": "c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, (please specify the page):",
"text": "With milke-white Hartes vpon an Iuorie ſled, / Thou ſhalt be drawen amidſt the froſen Pooles, / And ſcale the yſie mountaines lofty tops: / Which with thy beautie will be soone reſolu’d.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid)."
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[
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"melt"
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[
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"dissolve"
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[
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[
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[
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"transitive"
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},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], 1st Irish edition, Dublin: […] S. Powell, for George Risk, […], George Ewing, […], and William Smith, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "When the blood stagnates in any part, it first coagulates, then resolves, and turns alkaline.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid."
],
"id": "en-resolve-en-verb-G8kqvncH",
"links": [
[
"melt",
"melt"
],
[
"dissolve",
"dissolve"
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare, intransitive, reflexive) To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid."
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"rare",
"reflexive"
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{
"_dis1": "1 1 3 1 1 4 1 1 1 2 25 51 4 2 0 1 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "raztvarjam",
"sense": "to melt; to dissolve; to become liquid",
"word": "разтварям"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 3 1 1 4 1 1 1 2 25 51 4 2 0 1 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to melt; to dissolve; to become liquid",
"word": "sulaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 3 1 1 4 1 1 1 2 25 51 4 2 0 1 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to melt; to dissolve; to become liquid",
"word": "sciogliere"
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{
"_dis1": "1 1 3 1 1 4 1 1 1 2 25 51 4 2 0 1 1",
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "to melt; to dissolve; to become liquid",
"word": "resolven"
}
]
},
{
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"To liquefy (a gas or vapour)."
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"id": "en-resolve-en-verb-XwQIzdtZ",
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[
"liquefy",
"liquefy"
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],
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"(obsolete, transitive) To liquefy (a gas or vapour)."
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"transitive"
],
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{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 2 10 8 66 1 1 1 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vtečnjavam",
"sense": "to liquefy a gas or vapour",
"word": "втечнявам"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 2 10 8 66 1 1 1 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to liquefy a gas or vapour",
"word": "nesteyttää"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 2 10 8 66 1 1 1 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to liquefy a gas or vapour",
"word": "liquefare"
}
]
},
{
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"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
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"orig": "en:Medicine",
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"Healthcare",
"Sciences",
"Health",
"All topics",
"Body",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
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"To disperse or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumour."
],
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"links": [
[
"medicine",
"medicine"
],
[
"discuss",
"discuss"
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],
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"(medicine, dated) To disperse or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumour."
],
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"dated"
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"medicine",
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{
"_dis1": "3 2 2 1 3 3 2 4 3 5 5 5 1 53 1 4 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "razsejvam se",
"sense": "medicine: to disperse or scatter",
"word": "разсейвам се"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 2 2 1 3 3 2 4 3 5 5 5 1 53 1 4 2",
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "medicine: to disperse or scatter",
"word": "levitä"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 2 2 1 3 3 2 4 3 5 5 5 1 53 1 4 2",
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "medicine: to disperse or scatter",
"word": "resolven"
}
]
},
{
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{
"ref": "1641, Ben Jonson, Discoveries Made upon Men and Matter:",
"text": "resolve himself into all sports and looseness again",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"To relax; to lie at ease."
],
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"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) To relax; to lie at ease."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "0 2 1 1 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 84 1 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to relax; to lie at ease",
"word": "rentoutua"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 2 1 1 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 84 1 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to relax; to lie at ease",
"word": "ottaa rennosti"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Chemistry",
"orig": "en:Chemistry",
"parents": [
"Sciences",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers."
],
"id": "en-resolve-en-verb-6GQw67yd",
"links": [
[
"chemistry",
"chemistry"
],
[
"separate",
"separate"
],
[
"racemic",
"racemic"
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[
"compound",
"compound"
],
[
"enantiomer",
"enantiomer"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(chemistry) To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers."
],
"topics": [
"chemistry",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "1 3 1 5 5 8 3 1 2 3 2 1 1 2 1 61 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers",
"word": "résoudre"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 3 1 5 5 8 3 1 2 3 2 1 1 2 1 61 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers",
"word": "risolvere"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 3 1 5 5 8 3 1 2 3 2 1 1 2 1 61 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers",
"word": "resolver"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 3 1 5 5 8 3 1 2 3 2 1 1 2 1 61 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers",
"word": "resolver"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Mathematics",
"orig": "en:Mathematics",
"parents": [
"Formal sciences",
"Sciences",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To solve (an equation, etc.)."
],
"id": "en-resolve-en-verb-0JHxI2-7",
"links": [
[
"mathematics",
"mathematics"
],
[
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"solve"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to find a solution to",
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"code": "ko",
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"code": "lt",
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"code": "pt",
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"code": "ro",
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"code": "cmn",
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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"code": "cmn",
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"code": "nl",
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"word": "beslissen"
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{
"code": "nl",
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"word": "zich voornemen"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make a firm decision",
"word": "päättää"
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"code": "fr",
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"code": "hi",
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to make a firm decision",
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"code": "ko",
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"code": "ko",
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"code": "ko",
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"code": "pt",
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"word": "resolver"
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"code": "ro",
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"code": "ro",
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"code": "sv",
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "fi",
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{
"code": "it",
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{
"code": "it",
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"code": "it",
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "bg",
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"code": "bg",
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "will power",
"word": "tahdonvoima"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "will power",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Entschlossenheit"
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"code": "hi",
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"roman": "niścay",
"sense": "will power",
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"code": "hi",
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"roman": "icchāśakti",
"sense": "will power",
"word": "इच्छाशक्ति"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "will power",
"word": "akaraterő"
},
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"alt": "けつい",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "ketsui",
"sense": "will power",
"word": "決意"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "will power",
"word": "niwha"
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "will power",
"word": "pūtohe"
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"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "will power",
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"word": "Väanämungsjeist"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "will power",
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"word": "stanowczość"
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"code": "pl",
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"word": "zdecydowanie"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "rešímostʹ",
"sense": "will power",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "реши́мость"
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "will power",
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],
"word": "реши́тельность"
},
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "smélostʹ",
"sense": "will power",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "сме́лость"
},
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "will power",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "resolución"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "will power",
"word": "beslutsamhet"
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{
"code": "txb",
"lang": "Tocharian B",
"sense": "will power",
"word": "pratiṃ"
}
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