prevent completion | take up residence and become established |
stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments | form a community |
hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of | become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style |
seize on its way | establish or develop as a residence |
render unsuitable for passage | make final; put the last touches on; put into final form |
come to a halt, stop moving | become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet |
cause to end | come as if by falling |
interrupt a trip | bring to an end; settle conclusively |
stop from happening or developing | settle conclusively; come to terms |
put an end to a state or an activity | end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement |
have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical | come to terms |
| accept despite lack of complete satisfaction |
| get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury |
| fix firmly |
| arrange or fix in the desired order |
| come to rest |
| settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground |
| cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids) |
| sink down or precipitate |
| go under |
| become clear by the sinking of particles |
| dispose of; make a financial settlement |