settle down

• Verbo frasal usado para indicar o ato de alcançar calma, estabilidade ou adotar um estilo de vida regular, frequentemente após um período de atividade ou mudanças.

A phrasal verb used to indicate the act of becoming calm, stable, or established in a regular way of life, often after a period of activity or change.

incontável · intransitivo · phrasal, sem objeto

1. Become calm or quietinformal

   To stop being restless, excited, or noisy; to become calm.

   Acalmar-se

   • The children finally settled down after the movie.
   • Please settle down and listen to the instructions.
   • The crowd settled down once the speaker began.

   Sinônimoscalm downcool downcool offquiet downrelaxsimmer downtake it easy

   Antônimosagitatedisturbexcitefrenzystirupset

2. Start a stable lifeinformal

   To begin living a stable, routine life, often by getting married or having a permanent home.

   Assentar-se

   • After years of traveling, he decided to settle down in a small town.
   • She wants to settle down and start a family.
   • They settled down in the countryside after retirement.

   Sinônimossettle

3. Focus on somethinginformal

   To become fully engaged or focused on a particular activity or task.

   Concentrar-se

   • He settled down to work on his thesis.
   • She settled down with a good book for the evening.
   • After lunch, they settled down to discuss the project.

   Sinônimosbuckle downconcentratefocusknuckle down

Verbo basesettle