settle down
English
Verb
settle down (third-person singular simple present settles down, present participle settling down, simple past and past participle settled down)
- To become quiet and calm after a period of disturbance or restlessness.
- It took John a while to settle down after the phone call.
- 2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, in Rail, page 69:
- In terms of passenger route mileage, the UK railway of early 1970 had settled down to close to the present level, although there was still some pruning to do.
- 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, OCLC 5661828:
- It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
- To establish a settled lifestyle, and especially to marry.
- To get comfortable with one's new accommodation or circumstances.
- I have not yet settled down in my new apartment.
Translations
to become quiet
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to establish a settled lifestyle
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to get comfortable with new circumstances
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