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settled one's account

settled one's account is the simple past and past participle of settle one's account.

Meaning of settle one's account

Verb

settle one's account (third-person singular simple present settles one's account, present participle settling one's account, simple past and past participle settled one's account)

  1. (idiomatic) To return what one owes; to make good on one's debts; to pay back.
    • Their conversations had become more fearful, even superstitious in the past month. They called her a ghost, or a demon, or a monster. She once found one of them crying in the graveyard after midnight, praying in Latin, begging forgiveness, and she gave it to him after putting the scissor blade...2023 October 12, HarryBlank, “Fire in the Hole”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 22 May 2024

Questions about settled one's account

What is settled one's account the simple past and past participle of?
Settled one's account is the simple past and past participle of settle one's account.

Words near settled one's account in the dictionary

  1. settled down
  2. settled for
  3. settled in
  4. settled into
  5. settled on
  6. settled one's account
  7. settled someone's hash
  8. settled the score
  9. settled up
  10. settled upon
  11. settled with

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