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RESTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not tired; refreshed as by sleeping or relaxing
Example:
came back rested from her vacation
Classified under:
Similar:
fresh; invigorated; refreshed; reinvigorated (with restored energy)
untired; unwearied; unweary (with unreduced energy)
Also:
lively (full of life and energy)
Antonym:
tired (depleted of strength or energy)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb rest
Context examples:
We accordingly rested on a seat until they should return.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
“You can see where they rested the body. Halloa, Watson! what is this? There can be no doubt that it is a blood mark.”
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They slept that night on the grass, with nothing but the stars over them; and they rested very well indeed.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
"Good evening, Diana!" said Laurie, with the look of satisfaction she liked to see in his eyes when they rested on her.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
And if I do— Her dear hand rested like warm velvet upon my lips. Not another word, Sir!
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Fanny said she was rested, and would have moved too, but this was not suffered.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
"Well, Jane?" he said, as he rested his back against the schoolroom door, which he had shut.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He rested wherever he fell, crawled on whenever the dying life in him flickered up and burned less dimly.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
She was aware herself, that, parting under any other circumstances, they certainly should have corresponded more, and that her intelligence would not have rested, as it now almost wholly did, on Isabella's letters.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
When he had rested himself he set off again, driving his cow towards his mother’s village.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
