STEADY DOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does steady down mean? 

• STEADY DOWN (verb)
  The verb STEADY DOWN has 1 sense:

1. become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style

  Familiarity information: STEADY DOWN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STEADY DOWN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

root; settle; settle down; steady down; take root

Context example:

He finally settled down

Hypernyms (to "steady down" is one way to...):

stabilise; stabilize (become stable or more stable)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "steady down"):

roost (settle down or stay, as if on a roost)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

"If he only wanted to steady down, I'd give him a job drivin' the wagon," her husband said, but with no trace of benevolence in his voice. "Tom's quit."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"Go away and get a job somewhere and steady down. Afterwards, when this all blows over, you can come back."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"But you'd best get a job first an' steady down. Bernard does like to see a man at honest work. That stuff in the newspapers broke 'm all up. I never saw 'm so mad before."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)