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settle: a long wooden bench with a back; take up residence and become established; "The immigrants settled in the Midwest"; form a community; "The Swedes settled in Minnesota"; become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style; "He finally settled down"; establish or develop as a residence; "He settled the farm 200 years ago"; "This land was settled by Germans"; become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet; "The roar settled to a thunder"; "The wind settled in the West"; "it is settling to rain"; "A cough settled in her chest"; "Her mood settled into lethargy"; settle conclusively; come to terms; "We finally settled the argument"; end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement; "The two parties finally settled"; accept despite complete satisfaction; "We settled for a lower price"; get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury; "I finally settled with my old enemy"; arrange or fix in the desired order; "She settled the teacart"; cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids); become clear by the sinking of particles; "the liquid gradually settled"; come to rest; settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground; "dust settled on the roofs"; dispose of; make a financial settlement

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settle with collapse

pay out collapse

populate collapse

reunite collapse: have a reunion; unite again

get even with collapse

favor with collapse

come down on collapse

denizen collapse: a plant or animal naturalized in a region; "denizens of field and forest"; "denizens of the deep"

colonize collapse: settle as colonists or establish a colony (in); "The British colonized the East Coast"; settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world; "Europeans colonized Africa in the 17th century"

sign over collapse

inhabit collapse: be present in; be inside of

vest collapse: a man's sleeveless garment worn underneath a coat; clothe formally; especially in ecclesiastical robes; clothe oneself in ecclesiastical garments; become legally vested; "The property vests in the trustees"; place (authority, property, or rights) in the control of a person or group of persons; "She vested her vast fortune in her two sons"

keep house collapse

settle upon collapse

reckon with collapse

hand down collapse: passed on, as by inheritance; "This ring was handed down through many generations"

bequeath collapse: leave or give by will after one's death; "My aunt bequeathed me all her jewelry"; "My grandfather left me his entire estate"

mediate collapse: acting through or dependent on an intervening agency; "the disease spread by mediate as well as direct contact"; occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others; "mediate between the old and the new"

choose collapse: pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her"; select as an alternative; choose instead; prefer as an alternative; "I always choose the fish over the meat courses in this restaurant"; "She opted for the job on the East coast"; see fit or proper to act in a certain way; decide to act in a certain way; "She chose not to attend classes and now she failed the exam"

flump collapse: fall heavily

relocate collapse: move or establish in a new location; "We had to relocate the office because the rent was too high"; become established in a new location; "Our company relocated to the Midwest"

endow collapse: furnish with an endowment; "When she got married, she got dowered"; give qualities or abilities to

sit down collapse: take a seat

hold good collapse

hold water collapse

nail down collapse: succeed in obtaining a position; "He nailed down a spot at Harvard"

amortize collapse: liquidate gradually

dower collapse: a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her husband

bivouac collapse

domesticate collapse: make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans; "The horse was domesticated a long time ago"; "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog"; overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable; "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons"; adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil"

bring home to collapse

submerge collapse: cover completely or make imperceptible; "I was drowned in work"; "The noise drowned out her speech"; put under water; "submerge your head completely"; sink below the surface; go under or as if under water

reside collapse: make one's home in a particular place or community; "may parents reside in Florida"

ripen collapse: grow ripe; "The plums ripen in July"; cause to ripen or develop fully; "The sun ripens the fruit"; "Age matures a good wine"

ascertain collapse: learn or discover with certainty

ensconce collapse: fix firmly; "He ensconced himself in the chair"

locate collapse: discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining; "Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?"; "My search turned up nothing"; assign a location to; "The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles"

straighten out collapse

talk down collapse: direct and control (the flight of an airplane during landing) via radio; "the control tower talked down the plane whose pilot fell ill"; belittle through talk; speak in a condescending manner, as if to a child; "He talks down to her"

hand on collapse

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