reposing

v. rest, relax; place on or against something; lie down, recline

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Noun
1. freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility); "took his repose by the swimming pool"
(synonym) rest, ease, relaxation
(hypernym) inactivity
(hyponym) bedrest, bed rest
(derivation) recumb, recline
2. the absence of mental stress or anxiety
(synonym) peace, peacefulness, peace of mind, serenity, heartsease, ataraxis
(hypernym) tranquillity, tranquility, quietness, quietude
3. a disposition free from stress or emotion
(synonym) quiet, placidity, serenity, tranquillity, tranquility
(hypernym) composure, calm, calmness, equanimity
(hyponym) ataraxia

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Verb
1. put or confide something in a person or thing; "These philosophers reposed the law in the people"
(hypernym) put, assign
2. be inherent or innate in;
(synonym) rest, reside
(hypernym) inhere in, attach to
3. lie when dead; "Mao reposes in his mausoleum"
(hypernym) lie
4. lean in a comfortable resting position; "He was reposing on the couch"
(synonym) recumb, recline
(hypernym) lie
(hyponym) rest
(verb-group) recline
(derivation) rest, ease, relaxation
5. put in a horizontal position; "lay the books on the table"; "lay the patient carefully onto the bed"
(synonym) lay, put down
(hypernym) put, set, place, pose, position, lay
(hyponym) rail
(cause) lie
(see-also) repose on, rest on, build on, build upon
6. to put something (eg trust) in something; "The nation reposed its confidence in the King"
(hypernym) put, set, place, pose, position, lay

(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Repose
  

    spongier

Synonyms and related words:
accumbent, asleep, asleep in Jesus, at rest, bereft of life, breathless, called home, calm, carrion, cloistered, cool, couchant, couche, crawling, croaked, dead, dead and gone, death-struck, deceased, decumbent, defunct, demised, departed, departed this life, destitute of life, done for, draped, dwindling, ebbing, even-tenored, exanimate, fallen, finished, flat, food for worms, gone, gone to glory, gone west, groveling, halcyon, hushed, impassive, inanimate, isolated, late, late lamented, launched into eternity, lifeless, lolling, lounging, lying, martyred, moldering, no more, pacific, passed on, peaceable, peaceful, placid, procumbent, prone, prostrate, pushing up daisies, quiescent, quiet, reclining, recumbent, released, reposeful, restful, resting, resting easy, resupine, sainted, secluded, sequestered, sequestrated, sheltered, sleeping, smitten with death, smooth, sprawled, sprawling, spread, still, still as death, stillborn, stillish, stilly, stoic, stolid, subsiding, supine, taken away, taken off, tranquil, unagitated, undisturbed, unmoved, unperturbed, unruffled, unstirring, untroubled, waning, with the Lord, with the saints, without life, without vital functions