settle
— Verb
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～ bring to an end; settle conclusively; "The case was decided"; "The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff"; "The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance"
settle
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～ form a community; "The Swedes settled in Minnesota"
settle
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～ sink down or precipitate; "the mud subsides when the waters become calm"
settle
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～ come as if by falling; "Night fell"; "Silence fell"
settle
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～ establish or develop as a residence; "He settled the farm 200 years ago"; "This land was settled by Germans"
settle
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～ dispose of; make a financial settlement
settle on
— Verb
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～ become fixed (on); "Her eyes fixated on a point on the horizon"
settle down
— Verb
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～ become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style; "He finally settled down"
settle down
— Verb
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～ become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation; "After the fight both men need to cool off."; "It took a while after the baby was born for things to settle down again."
settle
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～ arrange or fix in the desired order; "She settled the teacart"
settle down
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～ settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground; "dust settled on the roofs"
settle
— Verb
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～ settle conclusively; come to terms; "We finally settled the argument"
settle
— Verb
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～ become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style; "He finally settled down"
settle
— Verb
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～ come to terms; "After some discussion we finally made up"
settled
— Adjective
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～ established in a desired position or place; not moving about; "nomads...absorbed among the settled people"; "settled areas"; "I don't feel entirely settled here"; "the advent of settled civilization"
settled
— Adjective
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～ not changeable; "a period of settled weather"
settled
— Adjective
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～ inhabited by colonists
settled
— Adjective
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～ established or decided beyond dispute or doubt; "with details of the wedding settled she could now sleep at night"
settlement
— Noun
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～ a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government; "the American colony in Paris"
settlement
— Noun
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～ a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it