adj
(UK, dialect, West Country, Somerset) Dead but unburied.
v
(obsolete) To bear, give birth to. (Usually in the past participle.)
v
(archaic, usually in the passive) To deliver of a child.
adj
(idiomatic) Finishing in last place in a competition or ranking, often by a considerable margin to the next-to-last-place finisher or after an exceptionally poor showing or season.
v
(US) To come to a dead-end.
n
Something that prevents the completion, or ends the existence, of a project etc.; a fatal setback.
n
(figuratively) Something that brings no success or profit; a dead loss.
v
To utter the farewell “good night”.
v
(intransitive) To live in seclusion.
v
(idiomatic) To leave things as they are; especially, to avoid restarting or rekindling an old argument; to leave disagreements in the past.
v
To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
v
To be idle when one should be working.
n
(archaic) A person who remains in bed until late in the day.
n
(UK) A period spent lying in bed for longer than usual after one has woken up.
v
(intransitive) To sit or lie down and come to a deep rest while still remaining conscious.
v
(transitive) To rest as on a pillow.
v
To lie very still, like a corpse.
n
The act or state of reposing.
v
(intransitive) To lie at rest; to rest.
n
(obsolete, rare, phrenology) The state or quality in which a person exhibits willingness to act rather than talk.
adj
Having an appearance of repose, peaceful.
n
A brief interval of rest or relief.
v
(intransitive, transitive, reflexive, copulative) To be or to put into a state of rest.
v
(intransitive) To have a rest
adj
(now regional) Disposed to rest; inactive, lazy.
v
(intransitive) To go to bed.
v
To be awake and out of bed early in the morning.
v
To stay awake past one's usual time in order to care for one or keep one company.
v
(transitive) To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break.
adj
(US, slang) gone; dead
n
(idiomatic) The limit of one’s patience, when one is so frustrated or annoyed that one can no longer cope.
n
An instance of keeping awake during normal sleeping hours, especially to keep watch or pray.
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