tasser
Meanings
Verb
1. to pile together, to put into a pile
2. to compress or to pack vertically
3. (for a person) to shrink, e.g. with age (pronominal)
4. (for things) to sort itself out with time (pronominal)
Examples3
Nous devons juste attendre que les choses se tassent.
We just have to wait for the dust to settle.
Il a la cinquantaine bien tassée.
He's in his late fifties.
J'ai trouvé une cache des recettes de ma grand-mère tassées au fond d'un tiroir.
I found a cache of my grandmother's recipes stuffed away in the back of a drawer.