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Settle   /sˈɛtəl/   Listen
Settle

verb
(past & past part. settled; pres. part. settling)
1.
Settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground.  Synonym: settle down.
2.
Bring to an end; settle conclusively.  Synonyms: adjudicate, decide, resolve.  "The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff" , "The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance"
3.
Settle conclusively; come to terms.  Synonyms: determine, square off, square up.
4.
Take up residence and become established.  Synonym: locate.
5.
Come to terms.  Synonyms: conciliate, make up, patch up, reconcile.
6.
Go under,.  Synonyms: go down, go under, sink.
7.
Become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style.  Synonyms: root, settle down, steady down, take root.
8.
Become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet.  "The wind settled in the West" , "It is settling to rain" , "A cough settled in her chest" , "Her mood settled into lethargy"
9.
Establish or develop as a residence.  "This land was settled by Germans"
10.
Come to rest.
11.
Arrange or fix in the desired order.
12.
Accept despite lack of complete satisfaction.
13.
End a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement.
14.
Dispose of; make a financial settlement.
15.
Become clear by the sinking of particles.
16.
Cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids).
17.
Sink down or precipitate.  Synonym: subside.
18.
Fix firmly.  Synonym: ensconce.
19.
Get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury.  Synonym: get back.
20.
Make final; put the last touches on; put into final form.  Synonyms: finalise, finalize, nail down.
21.
Form a community.
22.
Come as if by falling.  Synonyms: descend, fall.  "Silence fell"
noun
1.
A long wooden bench with a back.  Synonym: settee.



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"Settle" Quotes from Famous Books



... Humphrey Gilbert obtained a patent for discovery and settlement. In 1583 he perished in an effort to establish a colony in Newfoundland. His work was taken up by his half-brother Sir Walter Raleigh in 1584. Between 1586 and 1603 Sir Walter made successive efforts to settle a colony in the wide territory called Virginia, in honour of Queen Elizabeth, a name of much wider significance then than in later days. His colony at Roanoke, in what is now the state of North Carolina, was unsuccessful, and after his fall his patent reverted to the crown, but ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... 17th 1690. I, Adam Baldridge, arrived at the Island of St. Maries in the ship fortune, Richard Conyers Commander, and on the 7th of January 1690/1 I left the ship, being minded to settle among the Negros at St. Maries with two men more, but the ship went to Port Dolphin[2] and was Cast away, April the 15th 1691, and halfe the men drownded and halfe saved their lives and got a shore, but ...
— Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period - Illustrative Documents • Various
... that if entire emancipation had taken place in 1834, no more difficulty would have followed beyond what we may naturally expect in 1810. It will then take two or three months before the emancipated people finally settle themselves. I do not consider the apprentice more fit or better prepared for entire freedom now than ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society
... are thinking of marriage—" Phyllis shook her head—"you would have at least a much easier life than you have now. Mrs. Harrington would settle a liberal income on you, contingent, of course, of your faithful wardership over Allan. We would be your only judges as to that. You would have a couple or more months of absolute freedom every year, control of much of your own time, ample leisure to enjoy it. You would give only your ...
— The Rose Garden Husband • Margaret Widdemer
... coast: the little Mexican maiden, Pachita, in the old mission garden; the wicked Bill Nye, who tries to cheat the Heathen Chinee at eucher and to rob Injin Dick of his winning lottery ticket; the geological society on the Stanislaw who settle their scientific debates with chunks of old red sandstone and the skulls of mammoths; the unlucky Mr. Dow, who finally strikes gold while digging a well, and builds a house with a "coopilow;" and Flynn, of Virginia, who saves his "pard's" life, at the sacrifice of his own, by holding ...
— Initial Studies in American Letters • Henry A. Beers


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