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SETTLE DOWN
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
Example:
He finally settled down
Synonyms:
root; settle; settle down; steady down; take root
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "settle down" is one way to...):
stabilise; stabilize (become stable or more stable)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "settle down"):
roost (settle down or stay, as if on a roost)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 2
Meaning:
Become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation
Example:
It took a while after the baby was born for things to settle down again.
Synonyms:
calm; calm down; chill out; cool it; cool off; settle down; simmer down
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "settle down" is one way to...):
change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Sense 3
Meaning:
Settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground
Example:
dust settled on the roofs
Synonyms:
settle; settle down
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "settle down" is one way to...):
lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "settle down"):
sediment (settle as sediment)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Context examples:
Every now and then, by an effort, he would throw off the impression, and talk as if the matter were clear, but then his doubts would settle down upon him again, and his knitted brows and abstracted eyes would show that his thoughts had gone back once more to the great dining-room of the Abbey Grange, in which this midnight tragedy had been enacted.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My rooms were engaged for twelve months certain: and though I still found them dreary of an evening, and the evenings long, I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee; which I seem, on looking back, to have taken by the gallon at about this period of my existence.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A few months ago we were in hopes that he was about to settle down again for he became engaged to Rachel Howells, our second housemaid; but he has thrown her over since then and taken up with Janet Tregellis, the daughter of the head gamekeeper.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You don’t want to tell your life story to many new dates—you seem ready to settle down.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The men had known each other in the colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to settle down they should do so as near each other as possible.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At every jump too, Hands appeared still more to sink into himself and settle down upon the deck, his feet sliding ever the farther out, and the whole body canting towards the stern, so that his face became, little by little, hid from me; and at last I could see nothing beyond his ear and the frayed ringlet of one whisker.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
After that, things at the office will settle down.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous work at £ 2 a week when I knew that I could earn as much in a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on the ground, and sitting still.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Running low on fuel, Commander Neil Armstrong only had a few minutes to find a suitable spot to land, but he was finding only rocky terrain that was inappropriate to settle down on.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
I saw them one spring in Cannes and later in Deauville and then they came back to Chicago to settle down.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
