What's the difference between absolve and solve?

Absolve


Definition:

  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To free from a penalty; to pardon; to remit (a sin); -- said of the sin or guilt.
  • (v. t.) To finish; to accomplish.
  • (v. t.) To resolve or explain.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Religious efforts to address the issue have also been complicit in absolving men of their crimes, objectifying women and doing more harm than good with campaigns that blame women for the phenomenon.
  • (2) Their actions suggested that while Brown was busy unilaterally absolving the inequities of our colonial past, the Iraqis are still dealing with the iniquities of our colonial present.
  • (3) The development of body-weight from three anual-sets of children, who are born in the town of Görlitz, from birth to time of school-absolvation is presented.
  • (4) The company appears to blame multiple agencies and absolve itself of any responsibility for the violence in February that left one asylum seeker dead and dozens injured.
  • (5) Doctors should be careful not to absolve the government of its public health obligations by substituting unproved preventive interventions aimed at the individual patient.
  • (6) This raises the prospect that businesses could effectively take an "emissions holiday", absolving them from the need to invest in energy efficiency and renewable power for several years.
  • (7) Hussain is trying to block the settlement, saying HP officials were wrongly absolved in the ill-fated acquisition of Autonomy for $11.1bn (£6.6bn) in 2011.
  • (8) We are also dismayed, however, at Tony Blair's recent attempts to absolve himself of any responsibility for the current crisis by isolating it from the legacy of the Iraq war .
  • (9) Leung’s office told the Age that the agreement “related to past, not future, service”, absolving Leung of the responsibility to disclose his gains.
  • (10) This does not mean schools will be absolved from any responsibilities in the strategy, since they have a vital role in educating children on diet, providing school sport and ensuring their own school dinners do not contain an excessive amount of fat, Issues that are likely to be tackled in the obesity strategy include: better information for parents on children’s diets; requiring processed products to state how many spoonfuls of added sugar they contain; and making it easier for consumers to make quick comparisons between competing brands.
  • (11) The drama currently unfolding in Greece has seen politicians stick to a tried and tested formula for passing the buck: when your back's against the wall, lash out at a third party in a desperate attempt to save face and absolve yourself of responsibility.
  • (12) But Kalashnikov seems to have found a way of absolving himself from any blame or responsibility for his baby's death toll.
  • (13) Yet they’ve turned into a two-tiered justice system wherein prosecutors are able to manipulate grand juries into pretty much whatever decision they please, and absolve themselves of any accountability when they rig the system for their allies.
  • (14) Two offsides and a set-piece,” Manuel Pellegrini, the City manager, complained, as he sought to play up the freakish nature of the result and absolve his goalkeeper and central defenders.
  • (15) Thus the eventual purpose of the counter-claims may not be to absolve the separatists fully, but to suggest they may have used a seized Ukrainian Buk system, rather than one sent across the border from Russia, thus formally absolving Moscow of blame.
  • (16) They also absolve long-term unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia as a mechanism of hepatic microsomal dysfunction.
  • (17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Everton manager, however, attempted to absolve Mirallas of blame but conceded the miss had affected the team’s confidence for the remainder of the game, one that extended their dreadful run to one win in 13 matches.
  • (18) That doesn’t absolve governments of their responsibilities for setting the regulatory framework and enforcement regimes.
  • (19) It’s ludicrous that people can go into a confessional box and confess horrendous crimes and be absolved.
  • (20) Newcastle were relegated at the end of that season with Alan Shearer having been drafted in for what was a desperate and ultimately vain attempt to drag them out of trouble, and Kinnear has since absolved himself of any responsibility for that disaster.

Solve


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To explain; to resolve; to unfold; to clear up (what is obscure or difficult to be understood); to work out to a result or conclusion; as, to solve a doubt; to solve difficulties; to solve a problem.
  • (n.) A solution; an explanation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Recent data collected by the Games Outcomes Project and shared on the website Gamasutra backs up the view that crunch compounds these problems rather than solving them.
  • (2) This is a fascinating possibility for solving the skin shortage problem especially in burn cases.
  • (3) The evidence suggests that by the age of 15 years many adolescents show a reliable level of competence in metacognitive understanding of decision-making, creative problem-solving, correctness of choice, and commitment to a course of action.
  • (4) An efficient numerical algorithm based on the cyclic coordinate search method to solve the latter is explained.
  • (5) It can also solve a lot of problems – period.” However, Trump did not support making the officer-worn video cameras mandatory across the country, as the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has done , noting “different police departments feel different ways”.
  • (6) The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the problems which arise from simultaneously developing regulatory and competitive approaches to health care cost containment can be solved, if recognized, and that those problems deserve more systematic investigation than they have so far received.
  • (7) The problem-based system provides a unique integration of acquiring theoretical knowledge in the basic sciences through clinical problem solving which was highly rated in all analysed phases.
  • (8) Heathrow, likewise, said Gatwick's new runway would not solve the issue of hub capacity.
  • (9) This paper describes a teaching process in which two 4th year medical students learn a family approach to problem solving during a short clerkship of twelve hours spread over four weekly sessions.
  • (10) Families were randomly assigned to one of two forms of conjoint therapy: an Insight-oriented treatment (N = 10) or a Problem-Solving intervention (N = 10).
  • (11) In this way, we tried to find out how the patients experience the treatment and stay on the Unit, what is most helpful in solving their problems and what are, in their opinion, the direct gains of hospitalization.
  • (12) Utilizing standardized instruments, family and demographic predictors of general and problem-solving knowledge pertaining to diabetes were identified in 53 newly diagnosed children.
  • (13) A team-oriented problem-solving procedure using management project teams was developed to improve quality of care and productivity in a private, nonprofit hospital.
  • (14) He also conceded that commercial operators could not solve the problem alone.
  • (15) When the alternatives are considered, it seems most consistent with Piaget's ideas to regard both cognitive and affective phenomena as problem-solving organizations.
  • (16) Chronic constipation is a very frequent disease in western countries but fibres can often solve the problem.
  • (17) Overall, these results confirm that the medial septum plays a crucial role in the acquisition of problem solving.
  • (18) Students' responses to the 15 role conflict situations revealed many good problem solving skills and adaptations.
  • (19) The crystal structure of proteolytically modified human ACT has been solved at 2.7-A resolution (Baumann et al., 1991).
  • (20) Just by adding a sofa, table and chairs and some plants, we have turned this house into a home, and solved the housing crisis for one of the 6,500 rough sleepers or thousands of other homeless people in London.