Absolve vs. Resolve

declare (someone) free from guilt, obligation, or punishment

To make a firm decision about

To pronounce clear of guilt or blame.

To decide or express by formal vote

To relieve of a requirement or obligation.

To cause (a person) to reach a decision

To grant a remission of sin to.

To change or convert

To pardon or remit (a sin).

To find a solution to; solve

(transitive) To set free, release or discharge (from obligations, debts, responsibility etc.).

To remove or dispel (doubts).

To resolve; to explain; to solve.

To bring to a usually successful conclusion

(transitive) To pronounce free from or give absolution for a penalty, blame, or guilt.

(Medicine) To cause reduction of (an inflammation, for example).

To pronounce not guilty; to grant a pardon for.

(Music) To cause (a tone or chord) to progress from dissonance to consonance.

To grant a remission of sin; to give absolution to.

(Chemistry) To separate (an optically inactive compound or mixture) into its optically active constituents.

To remit a sin; to give absolution for a sin.

To render parts of (an image) visible and distinct.

To finish; to accomplish.

(Mathematics) To separate (a vector, for example) into coordinate components.

(transitive) To pass a course or test; to gain credit for a class; to qualify academically.

(Archaic) To separate (something) into constituent parts.

To set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment.

(Obsolete) To cause (something) to melt or dissolve

To free from a penalty; to pardon; to remit (a sin); - said of the sin or guilt.

To reach a decision or make a determination

To finish; to accomplish.

To become separated or reduced to constituents.

To resolve or explain.

(Music) To undergo resolution.

grant remission of a sin to;

Firmness of purpose; resolution

let off the hook;

A determination or decision; a fixed purpose

A formal resolution made by a deliberative body.

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

(transitive) To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.

(intransitive) To make a firm decision to do something.

(transitive) To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.

To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet.

To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state.

To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.

(music) To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.

(optics) To render visible or distinguishable the parts of something.

(computing) To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up.

To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid).

To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid.

To liquefy (a gas or vapour).

To disperse or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumour.

(obsolete) To relax; to lay at ease.

(chemistry) To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers.

To solve (an equation, etc.).

(uncountable) Determination; will power.

(countable) A determination to do something; a fixed decision.

(countable) An act of resolving something; resolution.

To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; - said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve.

To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; - said of complex ideas or obscure questions; to make clear or certain; to free from doubt; to disentangle; to unravel; to explain; hence, to clear up, or dispel, as doubt; as, to resolve a riddle.

To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.

To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle; as, he was resolved by an unexpected event.

To express, as an opinion or determination, by resolution and vote; to declare or decide by a formal vote; - followed by a clause; as, the house resolved (or, it was resolved by the house) that no money should be apropriated (or, to appropriate no money).

To change or convert by resolution or formal vote; - used only reflexively; as, the house resolved itself into a committee of the whole.

To solve, as a problem, by enumerating the several things to be done, in order to obtain what is required; to find the answer to, or the result of.

To dispere or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumor.

To let the tones (as of a discord) follow their several tendencies, resulting in a concord.

To relax; to lay at ease.

To be separated into its component parts or distinct principles; to undergo resolution.

To melt; to dissolve; to become fluid.

To be settled in opinion; to be convinced.

To form a purpose; to make a decision; especially, to determine after reflection; as, to resolve on a better course of life.

The act of resolving or making clear; resolution; solution.

That which has been resolved on or determined; decisive conclusion; fixed purpose; determination; also, legal or official determination; a legislative declaration; a resolution.

the trait of being resolute; firmness of purpose;

a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote

bring to an end; settle conclusively;

reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation

reach a decision;

understand the meaning of;

make clearly visible;

find the solution;

cause to go into a solution;