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AT REST
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dead
Example:
our dear departed friend
Synonyms:
asleep; at peace; at rest; deceased; departed; gone
Classified under:
Similar:
dead (no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life)
Domain usage:
euphemism (an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh)
Sense 2
Meaning:
In a state of repose or especially sleep
Classified under:
Similar:
asleep (in a state of sleep)
Context examples:
Symptoms are present even at rest or minimal exertion.
(New York Heart Association Class IV, NCI Thesaurus)
The volume of air moved into and out of the lungs during breathing at rest as a proportion of the predicted normal value.
(Percent Predicted Tidal Volume, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Poor little fellow! one only consolation have we; his friends mourn and weep, but he is at rest.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The patient is comfortable at rest.
(New York Heart Association Class II, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
It is closed at rest and opens during swallowing, sneezing, and yawning.
(Murine Eustachian Tube, NCI Thesaurus)
Claudication either with exertion or at rest; 2.
(History of Peripheral Vascular Disease, NCI Thesaurus)
A mathematic formula used to estimate individual oxygen consumption, and thus energy expenditure, at rest and for various physical activities.
(Metabolic Equivalent of Task, NCI Thesaurus)
“Papa is well. You see us here, quiet in our own home; our anxieties set at rest, our home restored to us; and knowing that, dear Trotwood, you know all.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Well, here we are at Chiselhurst Station, and we shall soon set our doubts at rest.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We all must die one day, and the illness which is removing me is not painful; it is gentle and gradual: my mind is at rest.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
