Answer and Settle

Answer

Answer verb - To speak or write in reaction to a question or to another reaction.

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Settle and answer are semantically related. in activity topic. In some cases you can use "Settle" instead a verb "Answer", when it comes to topics like reply.

Nearby Words: answered, answering, answerable, answerer, answerback

Settle

Settle verb - To cause to come to rest at the bottom (as of a liquid).

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Synonyms for Settle

Antonyms for Settle

Answer and settle are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Answer" instead a verb "Settle".

Nearby Words: settled, settlement, settling, settler, settlor

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Common collocations

problem	answer problem	settle problem
question	answer question	settle question
way	answer way	settle way
problems	answer problems	settle problems
Other words: questions.

Both words in one sentence

Gotten around in Sliders, where the Professor would ask people to settle a bet, in a tone that sounded like he already knew the incredibly obvious answer.

Source: What Year Is This?
Not willing to settle for being Mach's kept woman, she decides suicide is the only answer, going so far as to demand a talisman from Adept Red that would keep her from reflexively changing shape and saving herself.

Source: Despair Event Horizon / Literature
A Song of Ice and Fire features a number of "trials by combat" in which people are challenged to a duel in answer for their perceived crimes or to settle a dispute.

Source: Duel to the Death

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