Verb

(remov)

(label) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.

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*(Bible), (w) xix.14:

*:Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark.

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# To replace a dish within a course.

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(label) To murder.

To dismiss a batsman.

(label) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).

*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.viii:

*:Die had she rather in tormenting griefe, / Then any should of falsenesse her reproue, / Or loosenesse, that she lightly did remoue .

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To depart, leave.

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*:THenne the kynge dyd doo calle syre Gawayne / syre Borce / syr Lyonel and syre Bedewere / and commaunded them to goo strayte to syre Lucius / and saye ye to hym that hastely he remeue oute of my land / And yf he wil not / bydde hym make hym redy to bataylle and not distresse the poure peple

(label) To change one's residence; to move.

*(William Shakespeare)

*:Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane.

*1719 , (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)

*:Now my life began to be so easy that I began to say to myself that could I but have been safe from more savages, I cared not if I was never to remove from the place where I lived.

*1834 , (David Crockett), A Narrative of the Life of , Nebraska 1987, p.20:

*:Shortly after this, my father removed , and settled in the same county, about ten miles above Greenville.

To dismiss or discharge from office.

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Verb

(settl)

To place in a fixed or permanent condition; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish; to fix; especially, to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home etc.

* And he settled his countenance steadfastly upon him,until he was ashamed. --2 Kings VIII. 11. (Rev. Ver.)

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(transitive, obsolete, US) To establish in the pastoral office; to ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish.

To cause to be no longer in a disturbed condition; to quieten; to still; to calm; to compose.

* (George Chapman)

God settled then the huge whale-bearing lake.

* (John Bunyan)

Hoping that sleep might settle his brains.

To clear or purify (a liquid) of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink

To restore (ground, roads etc.) or bring to a smooth, dry, or passable condition

To cause to sink; to lower

To determine, as something which is exposed to doubt or question; to free from uncertainty

* (Jonathan Swift)

It will settle the wavering, and confirm the doubtful.

To pacify (a discussion, quarrel).

(archaic) To adjust (accounts); to liquidate; to balance.

(colloquial) To pay.

to settle a bill

To colonize; to move people to (a land or territory).

To become fixed, permanent or stationary; to establish one's self or itself

* (Francis Bacon)

The wind came about and settled in the west.

* (John Arbuthnot)

Chyleruns through all the intermediate colors until it settles in an intense red.

To fix one's residence; to establish a dwelling place or home.

To become married, or a householder.

* (Matthew Prior)

As people marry now and settle .

To be established in a profession or in employment.

To become firm, dry, and hard, like the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared.

To become clear after being unclear or vague

* (Joseph Addison)

A government, on such occasions, is always thick before it settles .

To sink to the bottom of a body of liquid, for example dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reservoir.

To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, for example the foundation of a house, etc.

To become calm; to stop being agitated

* (William Shakespeare)

Till the fury of his highness settle , Come not before him.

To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement.

(obsolete) To make a jointure for a wife.

* (Samuel Garth)

He sighs with most success that settles well.