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settle
English
- 🔊 a long wooden bench with a back
- 🔊 take up residence and become established“The immigrants settled in the Midwest”
- 🔊 form a community“The Swedes settled in Minnesota”
- 🔊 become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style“He finally settled down”
- 🔊 establish or develop as a residence“He settled the farm 200 years ago”
- 🔊 become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet“The roar settled to a thunder”
- 🔊 settle conclusively“We finally settled the argument”
- 🔊 end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement“The two parties finally settled”
- 🔊 accept despite lack of complete satisfaction“We settled for a lower price”
- 🔊 get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury“I finally settled with my old enemy”
- 🔊 arrange or fix in the desired order“She settled the teacart”
- 🔊 cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids)
- 🔊 become clear by the sinking of particles“the liquid gradually settled”
- 🔊 come to rest
- 🔊 settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground“dust settled on the roofs”
- 🔊 dispose of
- 🔊 bring to an end“The case was decided”
- 🔊 fix firmly“He ensconced himself in the chair”
- 🔊 sink down or precipitate“the mud subsides when the waters become calm”
- 🔊 go under“The raft sank and its occupants drowned”
- 🔊 come as if by falling“Night fell”
- 🔊 make final“let's finalize the proposal”
- 🔊 come to terms“After some discussion we finally made up”
Spanish
- 🔊 arraigar to settle
- 🔊 enraizar to settle
- 🔊 saldar to settle, to resolve
- 🔊 instalar to settle, to ensconce
- 🔊 arreglar to settle, to sort, to sort out, to patch up, to solve