settle
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Is settle a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
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Definition
verb (English)
1. To conclude or resolve (something):Examples: "His fears were settled"; "She hopes to settle and questions about the plans."; "The question of the succession to a throne needs to be settled."transitive
2. To conclude or resolve (something):Examples: "to settle a quarrel"Synonyms: dispose, dispose oftransitive
3. To conclude or resolve (something):Synonyms: dispose, dispose oftransitive
4. To conclude or resolve (something):Examples: "The coffee was only surface wet and looked worse than it actually was and as he returned to the Reception Desk to settle his account and give back his room key, he was met again by the young man who was still wearing his rucksack."Synonyms: dischargetransitive
5. To conclude or resolve (something):Examples: "to settle a bill"colloquialtransitive
6. To conclude or resolve (something):Examples: "He has settled with his creditors."intransitive
noun (English)
1. (archaic) A seat of any kind.Examples: "sit on a settle of joy with angels"; "If hunger drive the Pagans from their dens, One, 'gainst a settle breaketh both his shins;"; ""The gloom of those failing embers," exclaimed Francesca, "Has infected us both!" and, rising from the low settle, she lighted the lamp, and flung some smaller wood on the hearth, and a cheerful blaze kindled at once."archaic
2. (now rare) A long bench with a high back and arms, often with chest or storage space underneath.Examples: "Beneath its shade, the place of state, / On oaken settle Marmion sate, / And viewed around the blazing hearth."; "Let us return now to the little girl we left feigning to sleep soundly upon a settle in the kitchen."; "Nineteen persons were gathered here. Of these, […] John Pitcher, a neighbouring dairyman, the shepherd's father-in-law, lolled in the settle; […]"archaic
3. (obsolete) A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part. (Compare a depression.)Examples: "And from the bottom upon the ground, even to the lower settle, shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit."obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary