settle
settle is a 6-letter English word with 48 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A seat of any kind. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A seat of any kind.
- noun. A bench; especially, a bench with a high back.
- noun. A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part.
- noun. To place in a fixed or permanent condition; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish; to fix; esp., to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, or the like.
- noun. To establish in the pastoral office; to ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish; as, to settle a minister.
- noun. To cause to be no longer in a disturbed condition; to render quiet; to still; to calm; to compose.
- noun. To clear of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink; to render pure or clear; -- said of a liquid; as, to settle coffee, or the grounds of coffee.
- noun. To restore or bring to a smooth, dry, or passable condition; -- said of the ground, of roads, and the like; as, clear weather settles the roads.
- noun. To cause to sink; to lower; to depress; hence, also, to render close or compact; as, to settle the contents of a barrel or bag by shaking it.
- noun. To determine, as something which is exposed to doubt or question; to free from unscertainty or wavering; to make sure, firm, or constant; to establish; to compose; to quiet; as, to settle the mind when agitated; to settle questions of law; to settle the succession to a throne; to settle an allowance.
- noun. To adjust, as something in discussion; to make up; to compose; to pacify; as, to settle a quarrel.
- noun. To adjust, as accounts; to liquidate; to balance; as, to settle an account.
- noun. Hence, to pay; as, to settle a bill.
- noun. To plant with inhabitants; to colonize; to people; as, the French first settled Canada; the Puritans settled New England; Plymouth was settled in 1620.
- intransitive verb. To become fixed or permanent; to become stationary; to establish one's self or itself; to assume a lasting form, condition, direction, or the like, in place of a temporary or changing state.
- intransitive verb. To fix one's residence; to establish a dwelling place or home; as, the Saxons who settled in Britain.
- intransitive verb. To enter into the married state, or the state of a householder.
- intransitive verb. To be established in an employment or profession; as, to settle in the practice of law.
- intransitive verb. To become firm, dry, and hard, as the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared; as, the roads settled late in the spring.
- intransitive verb. To become clear after being turbid or obscure; to clarify by depositing matter held in suspension; as, the weather settled; wine settles by standing.
- intransitive verb. To sink to the bottom; to fall to the bottom, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reserveir.
- intransitive verb. To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, as the foundation of a house, etc.
- intransitive verb. To become calm; to cease from agitation.
- intransitive verb. To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement; as, he has settled with his creditors.
- intransitive verb. To make a jointure for a wife.
- noun. a long wooden bench with a back
- verb. come as if by falling
"Night fell"
"Silence fell"
- verb. take up residence and become established
"The immigrants settled in the Midwest"
- verb. form a community
"The Swedes settled in Minnesota"
- verb. become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
"He finally settled down"
- verb. make final; put the last touches on; put into final form
"let's finalize the proposal"
- verb. establish or develop as a residence
"He settled the farm 200 years ago"
"This land was settled by Germans"
- verb. become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet
"The roar settled to a thunder"
"The wind settled in the West"
- verb. bring to an end; settle conclusively
"The case was decided"
"The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff"
- verb. settle conclusively; come to terms
"We finally settled the argument"
- verb. end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement
"The two parties finally settled"
- verb. come to terms
"After some discussion we finally made up"
- verb. accept despite lack of complete satisfaction
"We settled for a lower price"
- verb. get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury
"I finally settled with my old enemy"
- verb. arrange or fix in the desired order
"She settled the teacart"
- verb. fix firmly
"He ensconced himself in the chair"
- verb. sink down or precipitate
"the mud subsides when the waters become calm"
- verb. cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids)
- verb. become clear by the sinking of particles
"the liquid gradually settled"
- verb. come to rest
- verb. settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground
"dust settled on the roofs"
- verb. go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"
- verb. dispose of; make a financial settlement
Synonyms
settee, descend, fall, locate, root, finalise, finalize, adjudicate, decide, resolve, determine, conciliate, reconcile, ensconce, subside, sink
Common word forms
settled, settler, settles, settling, settleable, settlement
Words from these letters
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