REPOSE ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does repose on mean? 

• REPOSE ON (verb)
  The verb REPOSE ON has 1 sense:

1. be based on; of theories and claims, for example

  Familiarity information: REPOSE ON used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPOSE ON (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be based on; of theories and claims, for example

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

build on; build upon; repose on; rest on

Context example:

What's this new evidence based on?

Hypernyms (to "repose on" is one way to...):

depend on; depend upon; devolve on; hinge on; hinge upon; ride; turn on (be contingent on)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "repose on"):

owe (be indebted to, in an abstract or intellectual sense)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

 Context examples 

To be privileged to put my arms round what I value—to press my lips to what I love—to repose on what I trust: is that to make a sacrifice?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I liked the hush, the gloom, the quaintness of these retreats in the day; but I by no means coveted a night's repose on one of those wide and heavy beds: shut in, some of them, with doors of oak; shaded, others, with wrought old English hangings crusted with thick work, portraying effigies of strange flowers, and stranger birds, and strangest human beings,—all which would have looked strange, indeed, by the pallid gleam of moonlight.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)