noun

1. Determination; will power.

   “It took all my resolve to go through with the surgery.”

2. A determination to do something; a fixed decision.

3. An act of resolving something; resolution.

Synonyms: fortitude, inner strength, resoluteness, sticktoitiveness, tenacity

verb

1. To find a solution to (a problem).

2. To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.

   “to resolve a riddle”

3. To make a firm decision to do something.

   “I resolve to finish this work before I go home.”