solveverb [ T ]
uk/sɒlv/us/sɑːlv/B1 to find an answer to a problem:
to solve a problem
to solve a mystery/puzzle
Just calm down - shouting won't solve anything!
This strategy could cause more problems than it solves.
The police are still no nearer to solving the crime.
More examples
- I've been trying to solve this problem all week, but I still haven't cracked it.
- Wars never solve anything.
- In the end they solved their problems and she had him back .
- No one has solved the problem of what to do with radioactive waste.
- Scientists have been trying to solve this puzzle for years.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Solving and solutions
- answer
- antidote
- band-aid solution
- be at the bottom of sth idiom
- clear (sth) up
- clue
- conquer
- conquerable
- fall
- iron sth out
- kill or cure idiom
- lateral thinking
- magic wand
- modus vivendi
- palliative
- result
- round
- solution
- talk sth out
- workaround
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