resettle
verb/ˌriːˈsetl/
/ˌriːˈsetl/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they resettle | /ˌriːˈsetl/ /ˌriːˈsetl/ |
| he / she / it resettles | /ˌriːˈsetlz/ /ˌriːˈsetlz/ |
| past simple resettled | /ˌriːˈsetld/ /ˌriːˈsetld/ |
| past participle resettled | /ˌriːˈsetld/ /ˌriːˈsetld/ |
| -ing form resettling | /ˌriːˈsetlɪŋ/ /ˌriːˈsetlɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, usually passive, intransitive] to help people go and live in a new country or area; to go and live in a new country or area
- (be resettled) + adv./prep. Many of the refugees were resettled in Britain and Canada.
- [transitive, usually passive] to start to use an area again as a place to live
- be resettled The region was only resettled 200 years later.
- [intransitive, transitive] resettle (yourself) to make yourself comfortable in a new position
- The birds flew around and then resettled on the pond.
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