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repose
noun
1 repose
Freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility):
— Took his repose by the swimming pool.
synonyms: ease, relaxation, rest.
Roget 687:
repose,
rest,
silken repose;
sleep
etc.
683.
relaxation,
breathing time;
halt,
stay,
pause
etc.
(cessation)
142;
respite.
day of rest,
dies non,
Sabbath,
Lord's day,
holiday,
red-letter day,
vacation,
recess.
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Dutch: nachtrust
Polish: zrelaksowanie, odprężenie, wyluzowanie, rozluźnienie
2 repose
3 repose
A disposition free from stress or emotion.
synonyms: placidity, quiet, serenity, tranquility, tranquillity.
Roget 265:
rest;
stillness
etc.
adj.;
quiescence;
stagnation,
stagnancy;
fixity,
immobility,
catalepsy;
indisturbance†;
quietism.
quiet,
tranquility,
calm;
repose
etc.
687;
peace;
dead calm,
anticyclone†;
statue-like repose;
silence
etc.
203;
not a breath of air,
not a mouse stirring;
sleep
etc.
(inactivity)
683.
pause,
lull
etc.
(cessation)
142;
stand still;
standing still
etc.
v.;
lock;
dead lock,
dead stop,
dead stand;
full stop;
fix;
embargo.
resting place;
gite [Fr.];
bivouac;
home
etc.
(abode)
189;
pillow
etc.
(support)
215;
haven
etc.
(refuge)
666;
goal
etc.
(arrival)
292.
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verb
1 repose
2 repose
Be inherent or innate in.
synonyms: reside, rest.
Roget 265:
be quiescent
etc.
adj.;
stand still,
lie still;
keep quiet,
repose,
hold the breath.
remain,
stay;
stand,
lie to,
ride at anchor,
remain in situ,
tarry,
mark time;
bring to,
heave to,
lay to;
pull up,
draw up;
hold,
halt;
stop,
stop short;
rest,
pause,
anchor;
cast to an anchor,
come to an anchor;
rest on one's oars;
repose on one's laurels,
take breath;
stop
etc.
(discontinue)
142.
stagnate;
quieta non movere [Lat.];
let alone;
abide,
rest and be thankful;
keep within doors,
stay at home,
go to bed.
dwell
etc.
(be present)
186;
settle
etc.
(be located)
184;
alight
etc.
(arrive)
292;
stick,
stick fast;
stand like a post;
not stir a peg,
not stir a step;
be at a stand
etc.
n..
quell,
becalm,
hush,
stay,
lull to sleep,
lay an embargo on.
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Roget 687:
repose;
rest,
rest and be thankful;
take a rest,
take one's ease,
take it easy.
relax,
unbend,
slacken;
take breath
etc.
(refresh)
689;
rest upon one's oars;
pause
etc.
(cease)
142;
stay one's hand.
lie down;
recline,
recline on a bed of down,
recline on an easy chair;
go to rest,
go to bed,
go to sleep
etc.
683.
take a holiday,
shut up shop;
lie fallow
etc.
(inaction)
681.
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3 repose
4 repose
Lean in a comfortable resting position.
synonyms: recline, recumb.
5 repose
Put in a horizontal position.
synonyms: lay, put down.
Dutch: aanleggen, afleggen, platleggen
6 repose
To put something (eg trust) in something.
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reposing
adjective
Roget 687:
reposing
etc.
v.
[of people];
relaxed
etc.
v.;
unstrained.
[of materials and people]
unstressed.
Moby thesaurus: accumbent, asleep, asleep in Jesus, at rest, bereft of life, breathless, called home, calm, carrion, cloistered, cool, couchant, couche, crawling, croaked, dead, dead and gone, death-struck, deceased, decumbent, defunct, demised, departed, departed this life, destitute of life, done for, draped, dwindling, ebbing, even-tenored, exanimate, fallen, finished, flat, food for worms, gone, gone to glory, gone west, groveling, halcyon, hushed, impassive, inanimate, isolated, late, late lamented, launched into eternity, lifeless, lolling, lounging, lying, martyred, moldering, no more, pacific, passed on, peaceable, peaceful, placid, procumbent, prone, prostrate, pushing up daisies, quiescent, quiet, reclining, recumbent, released, reposeful, restful, resting, resting easy, resupine, sainted, secluded, sequestered, sequestrated, sheltered, sleeping, smitten with death, smooth, sprawled, sprawling, spread, still, still as death, stillborn, stillish, stilly, stoic, stolid, subsiding, supine, taken away, taken off, tranquil, unagitated, undisturbed, unmoved, unperturbed, unruffled, unstirring, untroubled, waning, with the Lord, with the saints, without life, without vital functions ... show more.
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