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STEADY 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 "steady down" is one way to...):
stabilise; stabilize (become stable or more stable)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "steady down"):
roost (settle down or stay, as if on a roost)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
