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Definition of "rested" []

  • Recovered (adjective)
  • Simple past tense and past participle of rest. (verb)

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Use "rested" in a sentence
  • "All the rest -- acres of pasture, cleared and grassed, stretches of fertile ground, blocks of noble timber still uncut -- had passed through the hands of mortgage holders, through bank transfers, by devious and tortuous ways, until the title rested in Horace Gower, -- who had promptly built the showy summer house on Cradle Bay to flaunt in his face, so old"
  • "He looked forward to long rides, just the two of them, across the billowing sweep of Desert Valley, in the golden time when the title rested secure with them, in the time when at last all dreams came true."
  • "By the time the league was back to normal in March, it was clear that the race for the title rested between Spurs, Leicester and Everton."