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Settling

noun

1.

A gradual sinking to a lower level. Synonyms: subsidence, subsiding.

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. Antonym: float.

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"

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"Settling" Quotes from Famous Books

... for she was exceedingly shocked, and felt herself partly in fault, for having left the hoard in an unlocked cupboard. She feared to do anything hastily, lest she should bring suspicion on the innocent; and she thought all would do better if time were given for settling down. All were disappointed at thus losing the excitement, fancying perhaps that instant search and inquiry would hunt up the money; and David put himself quite into a sullen fit. No, he would not turn round, nor read, nor ...

— The Stokesley Secret • Charlotte M. Yonge

... "'She's settling, Israel,' said his son Jacob, that's counted soft, but can raise the tune at meeting—none like him ...

— The Dew of Their Youth • S. R. Crockett

... big arm-chair,' he said, handing me his cigarette- case and settling me down in comfort; 'but I entertain very seldom. I should like to be hospitable,' he went on; '—I really think it's in me; but that's pretty much out of the question here. I have no chef, no dining-room of my own, ...

— Bertram Cope's Year • Henry Blake Fuller

... interposes his wife, "I wish you would keep your stupid stories to yourself, or else go away. We are very busy settling about Molly's things." ...

— Molly Bawn • Margaret Wolfe Hamilton

... Varney received a letter to inform him that the last surviving trustee was no more, that the trust was therefore now centred in his son and heir, that that gentleman was at present very busy in settling his own affairs and examining into a very mismanaged property in Devonshire which had devolved upon him, but that he hoped in a few months to discharge, more efficiently than his father had done, the duties of trustee, and that some more ...

— Lucretia, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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