v
(intransitive) Of stormy weather, to dissipate, to become calm.
v
To settle (an argument, dispute etc.); to come to a settlement.
v
(intransitive) To settle comfortably.
n
(obsolete) The act or process of intending; intention; purpose; endeavour.
v
To make peace, to settle a dispute.
adj
Settled into a new environment; having brought one's belongings to a new home or workplace and arranged the place to be agreeable.
v
(intransitive) To settle into a home.
v
To settle oneself comfortably and snugly.
v
To settle oneself comfortably and snugly.
v
To settle or finish, especially a question or discussion.
v
To sink; to settle, as sediment.
n
subsidence, as of a sediment
v
(obsolete) To relax; to lay at ease.
v
(intransitive) To go to reside in the country.
v
(UK, dialectal) Alternative form of settle, especially in the senses of "silence; become or make calm or orderly; adjust differences or accounts; settle down". [(transitive) To determine (something which was exposed to doubt or question); to resolve conclusively; to set or fix (a time, an order of succession, etc).]
v
(obsolete) To have a settled determination.
v
(transitive) To bring or restore (ground, roads, etc) to a smooth, dry, or passable condition.
v
To bring (an argument, etc.) to a peaceful but resigned conclusion.
v
To get comfortable with one's new accommodation or circumstances.
v
(idiomatic) To accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable.
v
(idiomatic) To get comfortable or established, as in a new place.
v
(idiomatic) To become comfortable with a place or routine.
v
To confer (an annuity, etc) upon by permanent grant; to assure to. (Compare settle (“formally, legally secure”).)
v
Alternative form of put one's affairs in order [To prepare for the end of, or a radical change in, one's life.]
v
(idiomatic) To physically or verbally subdue someone.
v
(idiomatic, nautical, archaic) To cause the land to appear lower by receding from it.
v
Synonym of even the score
v
to pay what one owes (a debt, a bill etc.)
v
(idiomatic) Synonym of settle on
n
(architecture) The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
n
(nonstandard) The act of settling, or becoming firm or fixed in position.
n
(colloquial) That which settles or finishes, such as a blow that decides a contest.
v
Pronunciation spelling of settling.
v
(intransitive, UK dialectal) To settle down; calm or compose oneself.
v
(transitive) to put or keep (an animal) in a stable.
v
(transitive, sometimes figuratively) To stabilize; to prevent from shaking.
v
(intransitive) To fall into a state of calm; to be calm again; to settle down; to become tranquil; to abate.
v
To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms.
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