repose
IPA: ripˈoʊz
noun
- (dated) Rest; sleep.
- quietness; ease; peace; calmness.
- (geology) The period between eruptions of a volcano.
- (art) A form of visual harmony that gives rest to the eye.
verb
- (intransitive) To lie at rest; to rest.
- (intransitive) To lie; to be supported.
- (transitive) To lay, to set down.
- (transitive) To place, have, or rest; to set; to entrust.
- (transitive) To compose; to make tranquil.
- (intransitive) To reside in something.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To remain or abide restfully without anxiety or alarms.
- (intransitive, Eastern Orthodox Church) To die, especially of a saint.
- (transitive) To pose again.
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Examples of "repose" in Sentences
- I repose myself after work.
- Nor is this repose of the soil always necessary.
- The public repose continued until the following morning.
- Kennedy to lie in repose in Boston, be buried at Arlington
- It was transported to the Nixon Library and laid in repose.
- A solemn mass sung for the repose of the souls of the dead.
- The nobles and retainers pray for the repose of all the dead.
- Both the static and dynamic angle of repose can be determined.
- However, the repose is disrupted by the attack of a saber toothed cat.
- As a consequence, star gazing could be a great repose from a busy life.
- Darsanalaya Ashram is a place to repose in the busy schedule of this world.
- The paste is then flattened to the width of a dish and left to repose again.
- Anything that interrupts a matinal sabbath repose is bound to stir things up.
- Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive - Kennedy to lie in repose in Boston, be buried at Arlington « - Blogs from CNN. com
- She never talked of herself, so that it were well to let it go down that when in repose, expurgated, Greek she certainly was.
- The long list of occupations which you call 'repose' is enough to wear out any constitution, even one which is so admirably knit as yours.
- (CNN) - Three sources close to the Kennedy family say Sen. Ted Kennedy will lie in repose at the John F. Kennedy presidential library in Boston.
- CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Kennedy to lie in repose in Boston, be buried at Arlington « - Blogs from CNN. com
- He was not a big man, but his voice boomed, and his hands were meaty, and in repose there was something august about his heavy midwestern features: pale blue eyes that, in the absence of hopefulness, might have looked severe; prominent, straight nose and heavy jowls that, in the absence of mirth, might have seemed imperious and disapproving.
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