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settles down
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | step down; land |
| Synonyms: | alight, arrive, come down, deplane, detrain, disembark, drop, fly down, get down, perch, rest, roost, set down, settle, settle down, sit, sit down, stop, touch down |
| Antonyms: | mount |
| Main Entry: | mature |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become adult, fully grown |
| Synonyms: | advance, age, arrive, attain majority, become experienced, become wise, bloom, blossom, come of age, culminate, develop, evolve, fill out, flower*, grow, grow up, maturate, mellow*, mushroom, perfect, prime, progress, reach adulthood, reach majority, ripen, round, season, settle down, shoot up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mellow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ripen, mature |
| Synonyms: | age, arrive, develop, grow, grow up, improve, maturate, milden, mollify, perfect, ripe, season, settle down, soften, sweeten |
| Main Entry: | nestle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | curl up |
| Synonyms: | bundle, burrow, cuddle, huddle, lie against, lie close, make snug, move close, nuzzle, settle down, snug, snuggle, take shelter |
| Main Entry: | repose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | relax; recline |
| Synonyms: | deposit, lay down, lie, lie down, loaf, loll, lounge, place, rest, settle, settle down, slant, sleep, slumber, stretch, stretch out, take it easy, tilt |
| Antonyms: | be active, be busy, energize |
| Main Entry: | settle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come to rest; fall |
| Synonyms: | alight, bed down, decline, descend, flop, immerse, land, lay, light, lodge, perch, place, plop, plunge, put, repose, roost, seat, set down, settle down, sink, sit, submerge, submerse, subside, touch down |
| Antonyms: | move |
| Main Entry: | chill out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | calm down |
| Synonyms: | chill, cool it, cool off, loosen up, mellow, relax, settle down, simmer down, take a chill pill |
| Main Entry: | maturate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mature |
| Synonyms: | advance, age, arrive, attain majority, become experienced, become wise, bloom*, blossom, come of age, culminate, develop, evolve, fill out, flower*, grow, grow up, mellow*, mushroom, perfect, prime*, progress, reach adulthood, reach majority, ripen, round, season, settle down, shoot up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | light |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun, verb |
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ablaze, actinic, anacamptic, beaming, beamy, blazing, bright, bright as day, bright as noonday, bright as silver, bright as the sun at noonday, burnished, circumfulgent, clear, cloudless, effulgent, epipolic, flimmering, fluorescent, fulgent, fulgid, fulgurant, fulgurous, gairish, garish, glassy, glossy, guttering, heliographic, in a blaze, incandescent, inenubilable, interlucent, irradiated, lambent, light, light as day, light as noonday, light as the sun at noonday, lightsome, lucent, lucid, luciferous, lucific, luculent, luminiferous, luminous, lustrous, meridian, meteoric, nitid, noonday, noontide, orient, phosphorescent, photic, photoelastic, photogenic, photographic, plenilunar, radiant, refractive, refulgent, resplendent, rutilant, scintillant, self, sheeny, shining, shiny, splendent, splendid, stroboscopic, sunny, transplendent, unclouded, unobscured, vivid
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