to resettle
- verb
- /ˌriːˈsɛtəl/
- Following the natural disaster, numerous residents chose to resettle in neighboring towns.
- resettle refugees
- resettled people
- resettled populations
These groups spread out afterwards, resettling the world, absorbing the survivors in the areas where in which they took over.
- These groups spread out afterwards, resettling the world, absorbing the survivors in the areas where in which they took over.
- She was one of the so-called traditionalists who moved away from Olda Rybi to resettle the traditionalists to different areas on the Mesa.
Examples
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Close to 4,000 of them will be resettled in the United States, a record number for resettlement figures.
Academic text (2001) -
Until he was 19, and then he escaped and eventually he resettled in the States.
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Your dad was helping them to resettle somewhere in Europe.
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There have been some attempts to resettle nearby.
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After multiple years in these countries, a growing number have permanently resettled in the United States.
Academic text (2011) -
We found five families who will homestead at Fort Ruby and help us resettle it.
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By April 1995, more than 121,000 individuals from that group were resettled in the United States.
Academic text (1999) -
After the war, the people slowly abandoned the peaklands, eventually to resettle near Dagua on the coast.
Academic text (2003) -
Regardless of where the Lost Boys have been resettled, their supporters have remarked on their commitment to education.
Academic text (2001) -
After the war, many families had to resettle in safer areas to rebuild their lives.
Synonyms
Move to a new place and start living or working there
To move from one place to another to live, often for work or because seasons change
Leave home and move to a new place
To change where you live to a different home
Provide a person or family with a new home after they lose their home
To move something or someone to a new place
Antonyms
How Permanent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word resettle is built from re- 'again' and settle 'to make a home', like in settlement or the phrase 'settle down'. So to resettle is to move and make a new home again, often after you have to leave your old home.