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settlingverbpresent participle of settle to cause to come to rest at the bottom (as of a liquid)the light rain will settle the dust in the air careful handling will settle the lees in the bottom of the wine bottle laying, sedimenting filtering, screening, sieving, sifting, strainingclarifying, clearingresettling raising agitating, disturbing, mixing, stirring to supply with inhabitantsthe region was originally settled by farmers to give an opinion about (something at issue or in dispute)settled the lawsuit in favor of the defendant adjudging, adjudicating, arbitrating, deciding, determining, judging, refereeing, ruling (on), umpiring considering, deeming, deliberating, hearing, pondering, weighingsizing upmediating, moderating, negotiatingprosecuting, tryingfinding (for or against)concluding, resolvingredetermining, rejudging equivocating, hedging, pussyfooting, skirting to come to an agreement or decision concerning the details ofsettled their wedding plans without any major disagreements agreeing (on), arranging, deciding, fixing, setting contracting, pledging, promisingblueprinting, calculating, charting, concerting, designing, drafting, framing, hammering out, intriguing, laying out, maneuvering, mapping (out), planning, programming(or programing), schematizing, scheming, shaping, squaring away, working outchoosing, concluding, determining, figuring, opting, resolvingaffirming, approving, authorizing, clearing, confirming, OK'ing(or okaying), sanctioning, warrantingclosing, completing, ending, finalizing, finishing, rounding (off or out), winding up, wrapping upbargaining, chaffering, dealing, dickering, haggling, horse-trading, negotiating disposing of aborting, calling, calling off, dropping, recalling, repealing, rescinding, revokingdiffering (over), disagreeing (with)countering, debating, objecting, opposing, protesting, resistingcontesting, disputing to come to rest after descending from the airbirds settling on the branches of the maple tree alighting, landing, lighting, perching, roosting, touching down belly-landing, crash-landing blasting off, taking off arising, ascending, climbing, risingfloating, flying, gliding, planing, soaring, winginghanging, hovering to establish or place comfortably or snuglysettled the sleeping baby into her crib ensconcing, installing, lodging, nestling, perching, roosting deploying, emplacing, fixing, locating, parking, planting, positioning, setting, situating, stationinganchoring, bivouacking, camping, camping (out)burrowing, curling up, digging inharboring, housing to free from distress or disturbancea hot meal settled the children down becalming, calming, composing, lullabying, lulling, quietening(chiefly British), quieting, salving, soothing, stilling, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing) appeasing, conciliating, hushing, mollifying, pacifying, placatingallaying, alleviating, assuaging, easing, laying, mitigating, quelling, relaxing, relieving, solacingnarcotizing, sedating, stupefying agitating, discomposing, disquieting, disturbing, keying (up), perturbing, upsetting, vexing aggravating, heightening, intensifyingarousing, exciting, fomenting, inciting, rousing, stirring (up), working up to gain emotional or mental control ofsettled himself only with visible effort after the angry outburst calming, collecting, composing, containing, controlling, re-collecting holding back, restrainingrallying, recoveringlulling, quieting, soothing, stilling, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing) to give what is owed forsettle a debt anteing (up), balancing, clearing, discharging, footing, liquidating, meeting, paying, paying off, paying up, ponying up, quitting, recompensing, springing (for), standing repudiating to make final, definite, or beyond disputethis information should settle the question of who is right clinching, deciding, determining, nailing demonstrating, establishing, nailing (down), proving, showingaffirming, assuring, ensuring, insuring, securingdefining, specifying, stating, stipulatingclarifying, clearing (up), illuminatingconcluding, ending, finishing confusing, muddling, muddying, unsettling to stop the noise or speech ofsettled the class with a firm "quiet!" dumbing, extinguishing, hushing, muting, quelling, quietening(chiefly British), quieting, shushing, shutting up, silencing, squelching, stilling agitating, stirring in 1594 |