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US
/ɹiˈpoʊz/
]
[ UK /ɹɪpˈəʊz/ ]
[ UK /ɹɪpˈəʊz/ ]
VERB
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put in a horizontal position
lay the patient carefully onto the bed
lay the books on the table -
lean in a comfortable resting position
He was reposing on the couch -
to put something (eg trust) in something
The nation reposed its confidence in the King - be inherent or innate in
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put or confide something in a person or thing
These philosophers reposed the law in the people -
lie when dead
Mao reposes in his mausoleum
NOUN
- the absence of mental stress or anxiety
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freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
took his repose by the swimming pool - a disposition free from stress or emotion
How To Use repose In A Sentence
- As soon as the horses had obtained some food and repose, Sir Philip also returned, and Emily was left, with a woman who felt at her heart that she could have poniarded her not an hour before. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851
- One of the most beautiful aspects of this rite is the special way in which this second Host is prepared for being brought to the Altar of Repose, before the communion of the celebrant. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 3 - The Mass of Holy Thursday and the Mandatum
- Then a strange quiet descends after the Gregorian chant ‘Tantum Ergo’ as the Blessed Sacrament is laid at the altar of repose.
- The profile that passed the window was of the sort called aquiline, after the beak of the eagle; but he rather suggested a grey and venerable eagle; an eagle in repose; an eagle that has long folded its wings. The Complete Father Brown
- Mass for the repose of her soul was celebrated by Father Gilroy after which burial took place in Annagh Cemetery.
- His entire being had been drained by the immense blast he'd unleashed on the assaulting legions, but Rakael's desperate cry for help had catapulted him out of his repose.
- An entry sequence leading from the street, along a koi pond, into the entry, and to a negative edge pool distinguish the main public spaces and master suite while offering a place of repose.
- His face in repose possessed a boyish charm that disarmed her. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
- This seam of coal reposes on a layer of clay.
- The two boys were blind, also, to the manifold glories of Mirror Lake which reposed at their very feet. DUTCH COURAGE