repose

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

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v. rest (see repose); lay, place, entrust, deposit, put. See support, location.

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State of rest

Nouns

1. repose, rest, inactivity, relaxation, breathing time or spell, letup, halt, pause, respite, breather.

2. (sleep) sleep, slumber, somnolence, sound or heavy sleep, the land of Nod; Morpheus; coma, swoon, trance; catalepsy; dream; hibernation, estivation; nap, catnap, doze, siesta; land of nod; beauty sleep. Informal, forty winks, snooze, shut-eye.

3. (relaxation) day of rest, Sabbath, Sunday, Lord's day, holiday, vacation, recess, playtime, liberty, leave [of absence], interlude, getaway, furlough, free time, escape, break, breather, day off, downtime, time off; pause, lull; busman's holiday; leisure, spare time, idleness, ease; coffee break; time out, shore leave; rest and recreation, R and R.

4. (quiet repose) quiescence, quiet, stillness, tranquillity, calm, peace, composure; stagnation, stagnancy, immobility.

5. (relaxing drug) sedative, tranquilizer, sleeping draft or pill, soporific, opiate (see remedy, drugs). Slang, knockout drops.

6. bed, pallet, futon; sleeping bag. Slang, fart-sack.

7. [heavy or light] sleeper, slumberer, sleepyhead, layabed, dormouse. Informal, couch potato.

Verbs

1. (sleep) repose, rest, take one's ease, recline, lie down, go to bed, turn in, go to sleep, sleep, slumber, sleep a wink; snore; put to bed; hibernate; oversleep; sleep like a top or log; doze, drowse, snooze, nap; dream; snore; nod, yawn. Informal, drop off. Slang, saw wood, count sheep, conk out, flop, sack out or in, hit the hay or sack, pound the ear, bag or cop some z's, spaniel, kip, rack out, flake out.

2. (relax) relax, unbend, slacken, take breath, rest upon one's oars, pause; loaf, idle, while away the time, take a holiday, shut up shop. Informal, take it easy, let down, let go, take a breather, take time out, kill time; let one's hair down, catch one's breath. Slang, chill [out], cut one a little slack, hang loose, keep cool, lighten up, mellow [out]; knock off.

Adjectives

1. asleep, sleeping, comatose; in the arms of Morpheus; sleepy, drowsy, somnolent; napping, dozing; laid-back. Informal, out like a light, dead to the world.

2. reposing, reposed, reposeful, calm, quiet, restful, relaxed, unstrained, tranquil; quiescent, dormant; quiet; leisurely, slow, unhurried, calm; type B.

Adverbs — at rest, at ease, calmly, peacefully; at a standstill; at [one's] leisure, unhurriedly.

Phrases — all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy; some sleep five hours — nature requires seven, laziness nine, and wickedness eleven; the beginning of health is sleep; a change is as good as a rest; idle people have the least leisure.

Quotations — Sleep that knits up the raveled sleeve of care (Shakespeare), What hath night to do with sleep? ( John Milton), Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead ( James Thurber), I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use (Fran Lebowitz), Rest is for the dead (Thomas Carlyle), Too much rest itself becomes a pain (Homer), Sleep is the twin of death (Homer), Certainty generally is an illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man (Oliver Wendell Holmes).

Antonyms, see exertion, motion, activity.

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(Roget's IV) n.

Syn. rest, relaxation, inaction, peace; see rest 1 .

v.

Syn. lie, recline, loll, loaf; see lie 3 , 4 , relax 1 , rest 1 , sleep .

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(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

rest, sleep, ease, relaxation, quiet, respite, peace, tranquility, leisure, break.

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(Roget's Thesaurus II) I noun Freedom from labor, responsibility, or strain: ease, leisure, relaxation, rest1. See CONTINUE. II verb 1. To be or place oneself in a prostrate or recumbent position: lie1 (down), recline, stretch (out). See HORIZONTAL. 2. To take repose, as by sleeping or lying quietly: lie1 (down), recline, rest1, stretch (out). See CONTINUE. 3. To have an inherent basis: consist, dwell, exist, inhere, lie1, reside, rest1. See START.