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settle

English

  1. 🔊 a long wooden bench with a back
  2. 🔊 take up residence and become established
    “The immigrants settled in the Midwest”
  3. 🔊 form a community
    “The Swedes settled in Minnesota”
  4. 🔊 become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
    “He finally settled down”
  5. 🔊 establish or develop as a residence
    “He settled the farm 200 years ago”
  6. 🔊 become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet
    “The roar settled to a thunder”
  7. 🔊 settle conclusively
    “We finally settled the argument”
  8. 🔊 end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement
    “The two parties finally settled”
  9. 🔊 accept despite lack of complete satisfaction
    “We settled for a lower price”
  10. 🔊 get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury
    “I finally settled with my old enemy”
  11. 🔊 arrange or fix in the desired order
    “She settled the teacart”
  12. 🔊 cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids)
  13. 🔊 become clear by the sinking of particles
    “the liquid gradually settled”
  14. 🔊 come to rest
  15. 🔊 settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground
    “dust settled on the roofs”
  16. 🔊 dispose of
  17. 🔊 bring to an end
    “The case was decided”
  18. 🔊 fix firmly
    “He ensconced himself in the chair”
  19. 🔊 sink down or precipitate
    “the mud subsides when the waters become calm”
  20. 🔊 go under
    “The raft sank and its occupants drowned”
  21. 🔊 come as if by falling
    “Night fell”
  22. 🔊 make final
    “let's finalize the proposal”
  23. 🔊 come to terms
    “After some discussion we finally made up”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 arraigar to settle
  2. 🔊 enraizar to settle
  3. 🔊 saldar to settle, to resolve
  4. 🔊 instalar to settle, to ensconce
  5. 🔊 arreglar to settle, to sort, to sort out, to patch up, to solve

Similar words

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