Word Finder - settle

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To conclude or resolve (something):

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To place or arrange in(to) a desired (especially: calm) state, or make final disposition of (something).

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to settle her estate

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To become calm, quiet, or orderly; to stop being agitated.

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the weather settled;  wait until the crowd settles before speaking

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To establish or become established in a steady position:

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To fix one's residence in a place; to establish a dwelling place, home, or colony. (Compare settle down.)

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the Saxons who settled in Britain

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To move (people) to (a land or territory), so as to colonize it; to cause (people) to take residence in (a place).

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To sink, or cause (something, or impurities within it) to sink down, especially so as to become clear or compact.

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To make a jointure for a spouse.

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(of an animal) To make or become pregnant.

There was one way to settle the matter.

She'd need that time to settle her business and pack her things.

I want to go to a place where I can settle with my family and feel we truly belong to the community.

Why, I have not yet had time to settle down!

I'll come out to you in a moment, but we must first settle with the villain.

Maybe we'll settle here.

He felt Katie's gaze settle on him at the question.

Toby went without another word, and Rhyn drew a deep breath to settle his emotions.

The sagging bed, moldy smell, and cracked window did nothing to settle her nerves.

Kiera watched as he slid the band over his right hand to settle it at his wrist before stripping his own band off his left arm.

She could go on feeling sorry for herself because she couldn't have children, or she could accept the cards that had been dealt her and settle for less than perfection.

Mendoza undertook to conquer and settle the territory at his own charges, certain profits being reserved to the crown.

You sure you wouldn't settle for tall, dark and handsome?

We've got to settle something first.

Hopefully things would settle down for them now, but it was comforting knowing that their love was strong enough to survive the worst.

Why would we settle for anything less?

As is usually the case with people meeting after a prolonged separation, it was long before their conversation could settle on anything.

You might as well settle down, Shorty.

Now I've got me a score to settle.

Maybe the band would help settle him down.

A handheld GPS unit can settle any well-defined border issue.

He waited two more days to see if she would settle.

That evening Nicholas did not go out, but stayed at home to settle some accounts with the horse dealers.

When Lillian is in a fickle mood, it might take her an hour to settle on a decision.

Sofi dropped her hand, and the vamp remained still, as if letting her magic settle.

On the 28th of October 1890 Count Antonelli, negotiator of the treaty, was despatched to settle the controversy, but on arriving at Adis Ababa, the new residence of the negus, found agreement impossible either with regard to the frontier or the protectorate.

Caesennius Paetus, governor of Cappadocia, was ordered to settle the question by bringing Armenia under direct Roman administration.

In the end of the 9th century Iceland was colonized from Norway; and about 985 the intrepid viking, Eric the Red, discovered Greenland, and induced some of his Icelandic countrymen to settle on its inhospitable shores.

One important object of English maritime adventurers of those days was to discover a route to Cathay by the north-west, a second was to settle Virginia, and a third was to raid the Spanish settlements in the West Indies.

Cook's second voyage was mainly intended to settle the question of the existence of such a continent once for all, and to define the limits of any land that might exist in navigable seas towards the Antarctic circle.

The management of the company had meanwhile passed into the hands of others, whose sole object was to settle accounts with the government, and wind up the undertaking.

He was pastor of the Thein Church (1444), preached Peter's doctrines, recommended his works to his hearers, and finally, when these hearers asked him to lead them, he laid their case before King George Podiebrad, and obtained permission for them to settle in the deserted village of Kunwald, in the barony of Senftenberg.

Numerous foreigners had been allowed to settle in Moscow and to build for themselves a heretical church, and their strange unholy customs had been adopted by not a few courtiers and great dignitaries.

At a later period he was released from close confinement and allowed to settle in Mexico, where a pension was given him.

Under Charlemagne, the Jews, who had begun to settle in Gaul in the time of Caesar, were more than tolerated.

In 1833 Moshesh invited the missionaries of the Societe des Missions Evangeliques of Paris to settle in his country, and from that day until his death proved their firm friend.

If, however, the precipitate refuses to settle, it is directly transferred to the filter paper, the last traces being removed by washing and rubbing the sides of the vessel with a piece of rubber, and the liquid is allowed to drain through.

The first German immigrants to settle near Porto Alegre arrived in 1825, and much of its prosperity and commercial standing is due to the German element.

In this way he spent some dozen years, till 1541, when he was invited by Archbishop Ernst to settle at Salzburg, under his protection.

Many artists have been attracted to settle here.

On storing, moisture and mucilaginous matter gradually settle out.

Mr Lundeberg, who had accepted office only to settle the question of the dissolution of the union, now resigned and was succeeded by a Liberal government with Mr Karl Staaff as prime minister.

Thus the apple blight (Aphis mali) after producing many generations of apterous females on its typical food-plant gives rise to winged forms which fly away and settle upon grass or corn-stalks.

Only a few of them still move, rise, and feebly fly to settle on the enemy's hand, lacking the spirit to die stinging him; the rest are dead and fall as lightly as fish scales.

He'll settle with all the villains, you'll see!

And Pierre decided that the steward's proposals which had so pleased him were wrong and that he must go to Petersburg and settle his wife's affairs and must rebuild in Moscow.

If he goes to sleep quite easily but awakens later in the night, he has forgotten how to settle himself back to sleep.

For memory, don't settle for less than 128 MB RAM.

They will probably not reveal the bottom line amount to you in the hopes that they can get you to settle for an amount higher than that.

Though he considered such precipitation impolitic, Robilant, finding that confidential information of Italian intentions had already been conveyed to the Austrian government, sought an interview with King Humbert, and on the 17th of October started for Vienna to settle the conditions of the visit.