nested
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(of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
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To settle into a home.
โWe loved the new house and were nesting there in two days!โ
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To successively neatly fit inside another.
โI bought a set of nesting mixing bowls for my mother.โ
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To place in, or as if in, a nest.
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To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
โThere would be much more room in the attic if you had nested all the empty boxes.โ
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To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
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Embedded.
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Successively fitted one inside another.
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(Of a lexical item) contained within a dictionary entry as a subordinate term of the main headword.
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Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nest, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nested