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at rest

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. at rest(a)adjective

    in a state of repose or especially sleep

  2. asleep(p), at peace(p), at rest(p), deceased, departed, goneadjective

    dead

    "he is deceased"; "our dear departed friend"

Wiktionary

  1. at restadjective

    not moving; stationary

  2. at restadjective

    dead

ChatGPT

  1. at rest

    "At rest" generally refers to a state of stillness, inactivity, or lack of motion. It can be used to describe physical objects, people, or even abstract things like a specific condition or a state of mind. When referring to objects or particles, it is a term commonly used in physics and implies that the item is not moving relative to a specific frame of reference. When used to describe people, it might indicate sleeping, relaxing, or being calm.

Suggested Resources

  1. at rest

    Read the full text of the At Rest poem by Kurt Philip Behm on the Poetry.com website.

Anagrams for at rest »

  1. atters

  2. stater

  3. taster

  4. taters

  5. tetras

  6. treats

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of at rest in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of at rest in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of at rest in a Sentence

  1. Charles Krauthammer:

    That flocking and uniting and lighting up for the ‘[Trump] train’ I think is at least on hiatus and it makes some of those who got on the ‘train’ thinking twice, that, I think, is the lurking danger because unless he can unite the rest of the party and can get at least a kind of neutrality out of other leading Republicans, it's going to be hard.

  2. Rameshh Shanegar:

    The couple who spoke against the worthless corona protocol in Delhi yesterday have real guts, rest of the people under brutality are spineless and mute spectators and those who are saying against those couple are morons.

  3. Ambassador Currie:

    Those of us who have worked on Afghanistan know that just because they send their own daughters to school in Doha doesn't mean that they think that the rest of Afghan women should be allowed to get an education.

  4. Leonard Bernstein:

    Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.

  5. Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:

    It is a far, far better thing that I do now, then I have ever done before... it is a far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known before.

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