resettle
- to settle or cause to settle in a new or different place
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Contemporary Examples
Michele Ballarin, a Virginia socialite and businesswoman, has found herself at the center of the push to resettle those refugees.
Others seem to resent Ping for having escaped China to resettle into a successful life in the United States.
They say he will not attempt to resettle in the Vatican or anywhere else outside the United States to avoid criminal charges.
The court ordered Boumediene released and finally, after six months of legal limbo, the French government agreed to resettle him.
Historical Examples
Many Socialists desire the towns to control and resettle the country.
British SocialismJ. Ellis Barker
With what restlessness they take short flights and resettle.
Birds of the wave and woodlandPhil (Philip Stewart) Robinson
I felt one of them resettle my pillow, which allowed me to observe a screen placed around the adjoining bed.
The Case and ExceptionsFrederick Trevor Hill
Audley mechanically resumed his former life,—sought to resettle his thoughts on the grand objects of ambitious men.
My Novel, CompleteEdward Bulwer-Lytton
As we approached a breeding colony the birds would fly up, hover about, and resettle when we drew back a sufficient distance.
A Book-Lover's Holidays in the OpenTheodore Roosevelt
Word Origin and History for resettle
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