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[ verb ] become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style

Examples

"He finally settled down"

Used in print

(The Miami Herald,...)

For_instance , so-called `` conservative '' organizations , some of them secret , are sprouting in the garden of joining where `` liberal '' organizations once took_root .

(Saturday Review...)

If this practice should take_root and spread , the man who submits a manuscript to a publisher will find himself reviewed before he is accepted and publication will become a sort_of post-mortem formality .

Related terms

stabilize roost

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