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# resettle

«resettle» in Mova's school dictionary: **To move people to a new place to live, often after war…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (resettle, resettles, resettled, resettling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To move people to a new place to live, often after war, disaster or danger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resettle/#m1)

2) To settle down or get comfortable again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resettle/#m2)

3) To make a place lived in again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resettle/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography, history and news it is about refugees and families moved to new homes, for example after floods or war. In everyday life a baby or a pet resettles after waking up. Phrases: «resettle refugees», «resettled in», «resettle into».

### examples

- The families were resettled in a safe town after the flood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resettle/#x1)
- Many refugees from Ukraine were resettled in other countries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resettle/#x2)
- The baby woke, then resettled and fell asleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resettle/#x3)
- After the move, it took our cat weeks to resettle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resettle/#x4)
- The island was resettled a hundred years later. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resettle/#x5)
- The village was resettled away from the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resettle/#x6)

### note

Regular verb: resettled. Noun: «resettlement». Usually about groups of people moving because they must, not by choice.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «resettle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resettle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.