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• un|set´tling|ly — un|set|tling «uhn SEHT lihng», adjective. upsetting; disturbing; disconcerting: »In its quiet, pleasant way this is a most unsettling book (Saturday Review). –un|set´tling|ly, adverb …   Useful english dictionary

• un|set|tling — «uhn SEHT lihng», adjective. upsetting; disturbing; disconcerting: »In its quiet, pleasant way this is a most unsettling book (Saturday Review). –un|set´tling|ly, adverb …   Useful english dictionary

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• re|set|tle — «ree SEHT uhl», transitive verb, intransitive verb, tled, tling. to settle again; reestablish; relocate …   Useful english dictionary

• un|set|tle — «uhn SEHT uhl», verb, tled, tling. –v.t. to make unstable; cause to become disordered; disturb; shake; weaken: »Figurative. The shock unsettled her mind. SYNONYM(S): disorder, upset, disconcert. –v.i. to become unstable …   Useful english dictionary

• settle — set·tle set əl vb, set·tled; set·tling vt of an animal IMPREGNATE (1a) vi of an animal CONCEIVE …   Medical dictionary

• settle — set·tle vb set·tled, set·tling vt 1: to resolve conclusively settle a question of law 2: to establish or secure permanently a settled legal principle 3 …   Law dictionary

• Münzenberg, Wilhelm Willi — (1889 1940)    publicist; organized and led Germany s most powerful Communist propaganda empire. Born in Er furt, he passed a childhood marked by paternal brutality and poverty. In 1904, after a failed apprenticeship, he took a job in an Erfurt… …   Historical dictionary of Weimar Republik

• Settling — Set tling, n. 1. The act of one who, or that which, settles; the act of establishing one s self, of colonizing, subsiding, adjusting, etc. [1913 Webster] 2. pl. That which settles at the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs; sediment. Milton. [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Settling day — Settling Set tling, n. 1. The act of one who, or that which, settles; the act of establishing one s self, of colonizing, subsiding, adjusting, etc. [1913 Webster] 2. pl. That which settles at the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs; sediment. Milton …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English