To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.
My day's work is over; now I will rest.
Acronym of Revised Extended Standard Theory.
From Middle English rest, reste, from Old English ræst, from Proto-West Germanic *rastu, from Proto-Germanic *rastō, from Proto-Indo-European *ros-, *res-, *erH- (“rest”). Cognate with West Frisian rê...
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To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way.
You can rest assured that a sick child will say when it's again ready to eat, so it won't starve and doesn't need to be cajoled into eating.
To arrest.