repose
verb C2- To place (confidence, faith, or trust) in someone or something.
- Followed by in: to entrust (duty, power, etc.) in someone; to confide.
- To put (a body part) back in its usual location; to reposition.
- Of a thing: to be in the management or power of a person or an organization.
Plural repose · He/she/it reposes · Past reposed · Past participle reposed · -ing form reposing
Verb forms
- Base form
- repose
- He/she/it
- reposes
- Past
- reposed
- Past participle
- reposed
- -ing form
- reposing
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Through empty heaven without repose;
Owing to the very judicious plan of dividing the two acts of the opera with a ballet, the pauses between the performances are very short, the singers in the opera having time to repose themselves and change their costume, when necessary, while the dancers are executing their pirouettes and exhibiting their graceful steps.
There was only this blow wanting.” Then he said aloud, “My dear friend, your attack has, perhaps, fatigued you; had you not better repose awhile?
All these he bequeathed to me, with a thousand Roman crowns, which he had in ready money, on condition that I would have anniversary masses said for the repose of his soul, and that I would draw up a genealogical tree and history of his house.
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