Word Meanings - REST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To arrest.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REST)

• Abide
• Dwell
• stay
• inhabit
• continue
• rest
• tarry
• lodge
• reside
• live
• wait
• sojourn
• remain
• expect
• endure
• tolerate
• anticipate
• confront
• await
• bear
• face
• watch
• Cessation
• Stopping
• halt
• discontinuance
• quiescence
• suspension
• intermission
• lull
• respite
• stop
• abeyance
• pause
• Stop
• linger
• abide
• Ease
• Enjoyment
• comfort
• repose
• tranquility
• refreshment
• relief
• quiet
• contentment
• satisfaction
• readiness
• Found
• Establish
• institute
• fix
• set
• build
• set up
• base
• endow
• ground
• plant
• root

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of REST)

• Rouse
• excite
• disturb
• agitate
• stir
• urge
• goad
• Rise
• stand
• wander
• flit
• flutter
• remove
• transfer

Related words: (words related to REST)

• INHABITATE
  To inhabit.
• STOPPING
  A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air. (more info) 1. Material for filling a cavity.
• CONTENTMENT
  1. The state of being contented or satisfied; content. Contentment without external honor is humility. Grew. Godliness with contentment is great gain. 1 Tim. vi. 6. 2. The act or process of contenting or satisfying; as, the contentment of avarice
• CONFRONT
  1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit. Shak. He spoke and then confronts the bull. Dryden. Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew
• COMFORTLESS
  Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n.
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• INHABITATIVENESS
  A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
• WATCHET
  Pale or light blue. "Watchet mantles." Spenser. Who stares in Germany at watchet eyes Dryden.
• RELIEFLESS
  Destitute of relief; also, remediless.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• FOUNDATION
  The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
• WATCHDOG
  A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders.
• FOUNDER
  One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
• WATCHHOUSE
  1. A house in which a watch or guard is placed. 2. A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup.
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• STOPPAGE
  The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce.
• WANDERMENT
  The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
• CONFRONTATION
  Act of confronting. H. Swinburne.
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• INDWELLING
  Residence within, as in the heart. The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers. South.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• INEXPECTABLE
  Not to be expected or anticipated. Bp. Hall.
• UNEXPECTATION
  Absence of expectation; want of foresight. Bp. Hall.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• DISQUIETTUDE
  Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.