settle one's account

English

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. To return what one owes; to make good on one's debts; to pay back.
   • 2023 October 12, HarryBlank, “Fire in the Hole”, in SCP Foundation‎^[1], archived from the original on 22 May 2024:

     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.

Translations

to return what one owes

• Italian: saldare il conto, pagare a saldo, chiudere i conti

Further reading

• “settle one's account”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.