Synonyms for settling
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1. settling, subsiding, subsidencenoun

   a gradual sinking to a lower level

   Synonyms:
   remittal, subsiding, cave in, remission, subsidence

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1. • Sinking

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1. settlingnoun

   Synonyms:
   planting, colonizing

2. settlingnoun

   Synonyms:
   subsidence

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1. List of paraphrases for "settling":

   sedimentation, settlement, resolving, resolve, solving, solution, settle, solve, regulation

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1. George Washington:

   [T]he policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned; for, by so doing, they retain the language, habits, and principles (good or bad) which they bring with them. Whereas by an intermixture with our people, they, or their descendants, get assimilated to our customs, measures, and laws: in a word, soon become one people.

2. Peckish Erast Zubarev:

   I’d made a cup of coffee, and was settling in front of the TV down when I opened it and saw this little white worm crawling across the top, i was told by my mate it was a parasitic threadworm that lives in the intestine.

3. Jon Sands:

   She often is very good at letting the prosecutor and the victims know why settling is in their interest, and you saw that in Loughner, she and her team ... were constantly meeting with Loughner and getting experts until the prosecution understood that he was terribly, terribly mentally ill and it was in everyone's best interests for him to take a plea.

4. Nelson Mandela:

   “There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”

5. Dilma Rousseff:

   The new generations deserved to know the truth, but the truth shouldn't be confused with seeking revenge. It shouldn't be a motive for hate or settling scores.