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se tuhld

  • v  settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground
    dust settled on the roofs
  • v  bring to an end; settle conclusively
  • v  settle conclusively; come to terms
    We finally settled the argument
  • v  take up residence and become established
    The immigrants settled in the Midwest
  • v  come to terms
  • v  go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"
  • v  become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
    He finally settled down
  • v  become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet
    The roar settled to a thunder
    The wind settled in the West
    A cough settled in her chest
    Her mood settled into lethargy
  • v  establish or develop as a residence
    He settled the farm 200 years ago
    This land was settled by Germans
  • v  come to rest
  • v  arrange or fix in the desired order
    She settled the teacart
  • v  accept despite lack of complete satisfaction
    We settled for a lower price
  • v  end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement
    The two parties finally settled
  • v  dispose of; make a financial settlement
  • v  become clear by the sinking of particles
    the liquid gradually settled
  • v  cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids)
  • v  sink down or precipitate
  • v  fix firmly
  • v  get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury
    I finally settled with my old enemy
  • v  make final; put the last touches on; put into final form
  • v  form a community
    The Swedes settled in Minnesota
  • v  come as if by falling
  • a  established or decided beyond dispute or doubt
    with details of the wedding settled she could now sleep at night
  • a  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
  • s  inhabited by colonists
  • s  not changeable
    a period of settled weather

  • Of the eleven cases in which injunctions came down, five were settled during the 80 days, two were settled eight days later without a post-injunction walkout.
  • Before the service began, as the congregation settled into the pews of the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, known as the Mission Church, you had the sense of stories being .
  • He would, he says, have settled for nothing in cash if he just could have got a public apology.
News & Articles

  • Case settled over JetBlue pilot's meltdown
    Passengers and JetBlue Airlines have settled a negligence lawsuit after a JetBlue pilot suffered a mid-flight meltdown last year, prompting an airliner to make an unscheduled landing in Amarillo.
    June 13, 2013 - Amarillo Globe-News
  • JetBlue Has Settled Lawsuit Over Pilot’s Mid-Flight Freakout
    A lawsuit against JetBlue following a pilot’s meltdown on a New York-to-Las Vegas flight has been quietly settled.
    June 13, 2013 - CBS New York
  • Lawsuit settled in alleged Highland Park huffing death
    5-year-old was killed; teen driver's criminal trial pushed back A civil case filed against a Highland Park teen accused of "huffing" a cleaning product before striking a family with a car and killing a 5-year-old girl has been settled for an undisclosed amount, while the date for her criminal trial has been pushed back for a second time.        
    June 12, 2013 - Chicago Tribune
Quotes

  • Elena Kagan in Montgomery County Courier
    She said a 5-4 decision this year that said corporations and unions were free to spend their own funds on political activity was "settled law.But she was less forthcoming when asked whether she thought that campaign finance case, which she argued...
  • Barack Obama in The Daily Voice
    And my suspicion is that words were exchanged between the police officer and Mr. Gates and that everybody should have just settled down and cooler heads should have prevailed,Obama said in a ABC News appearance.
  • Richard Dunne in Times Online
    My first priority is, was and always has been to stay at City because I've enjoyed it so much and I feel really settled here,Dunne said. "When Mark Hughes got the job, I think everyone was really pleased and I was thrilled that he seemed...

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