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REPOSE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)

Example:

took his repose by the swimming pool

Synonyms:

ease; relaxation; repose; rest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("repose" is a kind of...):

inactivity (being inactive; being less active)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "repose"):

bed rest; bedrest (confinement to bed continuously (as in the case of some sick or injured persons))

laziness (relaxed and easy activity)

lie-in (a long stay in bed in the morning)

dormancy; quiescence; quiescency; sleeping (quiet and inactive restfulness)

leisure (freedom to choose a pastime or enjoyable activity)

Derivation:

repose (lean in a comfortable resting position)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A disposition free from stress or emotion

Synonyms:

placidity; quiet; repose; serenity; tranquility; tranquillity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("repose" is a kind of...):

calm; calmness; composure; equanimity (steadiness of mind under stress)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "repose"):

ataraxia (peace of mind)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The absence of mental stress or anxiety

Synonyms:

ataraxis; heartsease; peace; peace of mind; peacefulness; repose; serenity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("repose" is a kind of...):

quietness; quietude; tranquility; tranquillity (a state of peace and quiet)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put or confide something in a person or thing

Example:

These philosophers reposed the law in the people

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "repose" is one way to...):

assign; put (attribute or give)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

To put something (eg trust) in something

Example:

The nation reposed its confidence in the King

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "repose" is one way to...):

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Sentence frame:

Something is ----ing PP

Sense 3

Meaning:

Put in a horizontal position

Example:

lay the patient carefully onto the bed

Synonyms:

lay; put down; repose

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "repose" is one way to...):

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Cause:

lie (be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "repose"):

rail (lay with rails)

lay; blow (lay eggs)

bury; entomb; inhume; inter; lay to rest (place in a grave or tomb)

rebury (bury again)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Also:

repose on (be based on; of theories and claims, for example)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Lean in a comfortable resting position

Example:

He was reposing on the couch

Synonyms:

recline; recumb; repose

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "repose" is one way to...):

lie (be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position)

Verb group:

recline (cause to recline)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "repose"):

rest (be at rest)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence examples:

The children repose in the rocking chair

There repose some children in the rocking chair

Derivation:

repose (freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility))

Sense 5

Meaning:

Lie when dead

Example:

Mao reposes in his mausoleum

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "repose" is one way to...):

lie (be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sense 6

Meaning:

Be inherent or innate in

Synonyms:

repose; reside; rest

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "repose" is one way to...):

attach to; inhere in (be part of)

Sentence frame:

Something is ----ing PP

Credits

 Context examples: 

Kitty is slight and delicate; and Mary studies so much, that her hours of repose should not be broken in on.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“So!” said I. “This is how you repay the trust which we have reposed in you. You will leave my service to-morrow.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He pulled off his steel cap as he spoke and crossed himself, with a muttered prayer for the repose of the dead.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Each flow ends on a slope that matches the dynamic "angle of repose" seen in the slumping dry sand of dunes on Mars and Earth.

(Recurring Martian Streaks: Flowing Sand, Not Water?, NASA)

Sleep, or repose that deserved the name of sleep, was out of the question.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Then she began to be glad, and thought to herself that the time was fast coming when all her troubles should end; yet repose was still far off, for one day as she was travelling on she missed the white feather, and when she lifted up her eyes she could nowhere see the dove.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

At the end of that period, Lady Russell's politeness could repose no longer, and the fainter self-threatenings of the past became in a decided tone, I must call on Mrs Croft; I really must call upon her soon.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Down the neck and across the shoulders, his mane, in repose as it was, half bristled and seemed to lift with every movement, as though excess of vigor made each particular hair alive and active.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

She would have been ashamed to look her family in the face the next morning, had she not risen from her bed in more need of repose than when she lay down in it.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Even in repose the sun threw shadows from the curves of his skin, but when he exerted himself every muscle bunched itself up, distinct and hard, breaking his whole trunk into gnarled knots of sinew.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)