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rest

freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility); "took his repose by the swimming pool"

a support on which things can be put; "the gun was steadied on a special rest"

a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration

euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb); "she was laid to rest beside her husband"; "they had to put their family pet to sleep"

a state of inaction; "a body will continue in a state of rest until acted upon"

be at rest

take a short break from one's activities in order to relax

give a rest to; "He rested his bad leg"; "Rest the dogs for a moment"

not move; be in a resting position

put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying; "Rest your head on my shoulder"

be inactive, refrain from acting; "The committee is resting over the summer"

be inherent or innate in;

Synonyms:

• abeyance,
• abide,
• abide in,
• advocate,
• afterglow,
• afterimage,
• allay,
• alpenstock,
• annihilation,
• appease,
• arm,
• arrive,
• ataraxia,
• ataraxy,
• athletic supporter,
• awful silence,
• axis,
• back,
• backbone,
• backing,
• balance,
• bandeau,
• bane,
• base,
• basis,
• be a sideliner,
• be based on,
• be coextensive with,
• be comprised in,
• be constituted by,
• be contained in,
• be contingent on,
• be dependent on,
• be found,
• be left,
• be located,
• be predicated on,
• be present in,
• be situated,
• be still,
• bearer,
• bearing,
• bed,
• bed down,
• biological death,
• bottom,
• bra,
• brace,
• bracer,
• bracket,
• brassiere,
• break,
• breath,
• breathe,
• breather,
• breathing place,
• breathing space,
• breathing spell,
• breathing time,
• breve rest,
• butt,
• butt end,
• buttress,
• caesura,
• call a recess,
• calm,
• calm down,
• calmness,
• candle ends,
• cane,
• carrier,
• cease-fire,
• cervix,
• cessation,
• cessation of life,
• chaff,
• cigarette break,
• clinical death,
• coast,
• cocktail hour,
• coffee break,
• compose,
• composure,
• conduct pleadings,
• consist in,
• contemplation,
• continue to be,
• convenience,
• cool,
• corset,
• couch,
• count sheep,
• cradle,
• crook,
• crossing the bar,
• crutch,
• curl up,
• curtains,
• day off,
• dead,
• dead of night,
• death,
• death knell,
• deathlike silence,
• debris,
• debt of nature,
• decease,
• delay,
• demise,
• departure,
• depend,
• depend on,
• deposit,
• detritus,
• dissolution,
• do nothing,
• doom,
• doorstep,
• doss down,
• downtime,
• doze,
• dozing,
• drift,
• drop,
• dulcify,
• dwell in,
• dying,
• ease,
• ease up,
• ebb of life,
• eighth rest,
• end,
• end of life,
• ending,
• enforced respite,
• eternal rest,
• even out,
• excess,
• exist in,
• exit,
• expiration,
• extinction,
• extinguishment,
• fag end,
• filings,
• final summons,
• finger of death,
• footing,
• footrest,
• footstep,
• forty winks,
• fossil,
• foundation,
• foundation garment,
• free time,
• freedom,
• freeze,
• fulcrum,
• girdle,
• go to bed,
• go to rest,
• go to sleep,
• going,
• going off,
• golden silence,
• goof-off time,
• grave,
• ground,
• groundwork,
• guy,
• guywire,
• half rest,
• halt,
• hand of death,
• hang,
• hang fire,
• hang on,
• happy hour,
• heel,
• hesitate,
• hesitation,
• hibernate,
• hinge,
• hinge on,
• hit the hay,
• hit the sack,
• holder,
• holdover,
• holiday,
• hush,
• hush of night,
• husks,
• idle,
• idle hours,
• idleness,
• imperturbability,
• implead,
• inactivity,
• inaudibility,
• indolence,
• inhabit,
• inhere in,
• interim,
• interlude,
• intermezzo,
• intermission,
• intermittence,
• interruption,
• interval,
• jaws of death,
• jock,
• jockstrap,
• keep quiet,
• kip,
• knell,
• languish,
• lapse,
• last debt,
• last muster,
• last rest,
• last roundup,
• last sleep,
• lay,
• lay down,
• layoff,
• lean,
• leaving life,
• leavings,
• leftovers,
• leisure,
• let down,
• let up,
• letup,
• lie,
• lie athwart,
• lie by,
• lie dormant,
• lie down,
• lie in,
• lie on,
• lie still,
• lie with,
• loaf,
• loafing,
• lodge,
• loll,
• loss of life,
• lounge,
• lucid stillness,
• lull,
• mainstay,
• maintainer,
• make a plea,
• making an end,
• mark time,
• marmoreal repose,
• mast,
• minim,
• mollify,
• mum,
• nap,
• neck,
• nirvana,
• nod,
• noiselessness,
• not breathe,
• not budge,
• not stir,
• oarlock,
• odd moments,
• odds and ends,
• offscourings,
• orts,
• overage,
• overplus,
• pace,
• pacify,
• parings,
• parting,
• passing,
• passing away,
• passing over,
• pause,
• peace,
• peacefulness,
• perishing,
• pivot,
• place,
• placidity,
• placidness,
• plead,
• position,
• pour balm into,
• prop,
• put,
• put down,
• quarter rest,
• quell,
• quiescence,
• quiescency,
• quiet,
• quietism,
• quietness,
• quietude,
• quietus,
• rags,
• recess,
• recline,
• refuse,
• reinforce,
• reinforcement,
• reinforcer,
• relax,
• relaxation,
• release,
• relics,
• rely,
• remain,
• remain motionless,
• remainder,
• remains,
• remission,
• remnant,
• repose,
• repose in,
• reposit,
• reside,
• reside in,
• residual,
• residue,
• residuum,
• respite,
• rest in,
• rest on,
• rest with,
• restfulness,
• resting place,
• resting point,
• retirement,
• revolve on,
• reward,
• ride,
• ride at anchor,
• ride easy,
• ride hawse full,
• rigging,
• riser,
• roach,
• rock to sleep,
• round,
• rowlock,
• rubbish,
• ruins,
• rump,
• rundle,
• rung,
• sack out,
• satori,
• sawdust,
• scale,
• scourings,
• scraps,
• seat,
• seating,
• semiretirement,
• sentence of death,
• serenity,
• set,
• set down,
• settle to rest,
• shades of death,
• shadow,
• shadow of death,
• shavings,
• shelf,
• shoulder,
• shroud,
• shut-eye,
• siesta,
• silence,
• silentness,
• silken repose,
• sit back,
• sit it out,
• sixteenth rest,
• slack off,
• slacken,
• sleep,
• slumber,
• smooth,
• smooth down,
• smooth over,
• smoothen,
• snooze,
• snug down,
• solemn silence,
• somatic death,
• soothe,
• soundlessness,
• spare time,
• spell,
• spill,
• spine,
• spoke,
• sprawl,
• sprit,
• stabilize,
• staff,
• stagnate,
• stair,
• stand,
• stand fast,
• stand firm,
• stand on,
• stand still,
• stand-down,
• standing rigging,
• stave,
• stay,
• stay put,
• steady,
• step,
• step stool,
• stepping-stone,
• stick,
• stick fast,
• stiffener,
• still,
• stillness,
• stop,
• stop for breath,
• straw,
• strengthener,
• stretch out,
• string,
• stubble,
• stump,
• subdue,
• subsist,
• subsist in,
• summons of death,
• superfluity,
• support,
• supporter,
• surcease,
• surplus,
• surplusage,
• survival,
• survive,
• suspension,
• sustainer,
• sweepings,
• tacitness,
• taciturnity,
• take,
• take a nap,
• take a recess,
• take a rest,
• take forty winks,
• take it easy,
• take life easy,
• tarry,
• tea break,
• thole,
• tholepin,
• time,
• time off,
• time out,
• time to kill,
• time to spare,
• tomblike silence,
• trace,
• tranquilize,
• tranquillity,
• tread,
• tread water,
• trestle,
• truce,
• turn on,
• turn up,
• turn upon,
• unbend,
• unlax,
• unwind,
• upholder,
• vacation,
• vegetate,
• vestige,
• wait and see,
• walking stick,
• waste,
• watch and wait,
• whisht,
• wise passiveness