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(verb) take up residence and become established; "The immigrants settled in the Midwest" |
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Synonyms: locate, relocate |
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Related Words: colonize, resettle |
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(verb) form a community; "The Swedes settled in Minnesota" |
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Related Words: homestead |
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(verb) become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style; "He finally settled down" |
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Synonyms: settle down, steady down, take root |
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Related Words: roost, stabilize |
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(verb) establish or develop as a residence: "He settled the farm 200 years ago"; "This land was settled by Germans" |
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Related Words: develop |
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(verb) become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet; "The roar settled to a thunder"; "The wind settled in the West"; "it is settling to rain"; "A cough settled in her chest"; "Her mood settled into lethargy" |
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Related Words: become, get, go |
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(verb) settle conclusively; come to terms; "We finally settled the argument" |
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Synonyms: determine, square off, square up |
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Related Words: arbitrate, clear, compromise, concert, conclude, mediate, resolve |
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(verb) end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement; "The two parties finally settled" |
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Related Words: agree, concur |
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(verb) accept despite complete satisfaction; "We settled for a lower price" |
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Related Words: accept, consent, go for |
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(verb) get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury; "I finally settled with my old enemy" |
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Synonyms: get back |
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Related Words: fight, struggle |
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(verb) arrange or fix in the desired order; "She settled the teacart" |
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Related Words: arrange, set up |
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(verb) cause to settle, as of liquids |
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Related Words: sink |
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(verb) come to rest |
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Synonyms: halt |
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Related Words: halt, stop |
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(verb) settle into a position |
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Synonyms: settle down |
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Related Words: lay, place, pose, position, put, set |
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(verb) dispose of; make a financial settlement |
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Related Words: arrange, clean up, compensate, fix up, make up, pay, pay off, square |
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(noun) a long wooden bench with a back |
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Synonyms: settee |
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Related Words: bench |
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(verb) make final; put the last touches on; put into final form; "let's finalize the proposal" |
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Synonyms: finalize, nail down |
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Related Words: end, terminate |
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(verb) bring to an end; settle conclusively; "The case was decided"; "The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff" |
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Synonyms: decide, resolve |
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Related Words: end, judge, terminate |
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(verb) fix firmly; "He ensconced himself in the chair" |
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Synonyms: ensconce |
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Related Words: lay, place, pose, position, put, set |
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(verb) sink or fall |
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Synonyms: subside |
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Related Words: go down, go under, settle, sink |
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(verb) go_under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned" |
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Synonyms: go down, go under, sink |
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Related Words: come down, descend, fall, founder, go down, settle, submerge, subside |
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(verb) come to terms; "After some discussion we finally made up" |
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Synonyms: conciliate, make up, patch up, reconcile |
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Related Words: agree, appease, concur, make peace, propitiate |
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