RESETTLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does resettle mean? 

• RESETTLE (verb)
  The verb RESETTLE has 1 sense:

1. settle in a new place

  Familiarity information: RESETTLE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESETTLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they resettle    ... he / she / it resettles   
Past simple: resettled   
Past participle: resettled   
-ing form: resettling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Settle in a new place

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The immigrants had to resettle

Hypernyms (to "resettle" is one way to...):

locate; settle (take up residence and become established)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

resettlement (the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind))

 Context examples 

As any economic activity is banned from the conservation units surveyed, the population living or working in the area should be compensated and resettled.

(Brazilian savanna unprotected, study finds, Agência Brasil)

The time now approached for Lady Russell's return: the day was even fixed; and Anne, being engaged to join her as soon as she was resettled, was looking forward to an early removal to Kellynch, and beginning to think how her own comfort was likely to be affected by it.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

About the third or fourth morning after their being thus resettled in Berkeley Street, Mrs. Jennings, on returning from her ordinary visit to Mrs. Palmer, entered the drawing-room, where Elinor was sitting by herself, with an air of such hurrying importance as prepared her to hear something wonderful; and giving her time only to form that idea, began directly to justify it, by saying, Lord! my dear Miss Dashwood! have you heard the news?

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)