"settle one's account" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "settles one's account",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "settling one's account",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "settled one's account",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "settled one's account",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "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)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023 October 12, HarryBlank, “Fire in the Hole”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-05-22",
          "text": "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 through his aorta. She didn't see any point in being petty. They were all going to die, and that would settle their accounts with her.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To return what one owes; to make good on one's debts; to pay back."
      ],
      "id": "en-settle_one's_account-en-verb-hhkfK-c5",
      "links": [
        [
          "return",
          "return"
        ],
        [
          "owe",
          "owe"
        ],
        [
          "make good on",
          "make good on"
        ],
        [
          "debt",
          "debt"
        ],
        [
          "pay back",
          "pay back"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To return what one owes; to make good on one's debts; to pay back."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to return what one owes",
          "word": "saldare il conto"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to return what one owes",
          "word": "pagare a saldo"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to return what one owes",
          "word": "chiudere i conti"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "settle one's account"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "settles one's account",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "settling one's account",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "settled one's account",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "settled one's account",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "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)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Terms with Italian translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023 October 12, HarryBlank, “Fire in the Hole”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-05-22",
          "text": "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 through his aorta. She didn't see any point in being petty. They were all going to die, and that would settle their accounts with her.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To return what one owes; to make good on one's debts; to pay back."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "return",
          "return"
        ],
        [
          "owe",
          "owe"
        ],
        [
          "make good on",
          "make good on"
        ],
        [
          "debt",
          "debt"
        ],
        [
          "pay back",
          "pay back"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To return what one owes; to make good on one's debts; to pay back."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to return what one owes",
      "word": "saldare il conto"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to return what one owes",
      "word": "pagare a saldo"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to return what one owes",
      "word": "chiudere i conti"
    }
  ],
  "word": "settle one's account"
}