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(Scotland, England, obsolete) Alternative form of rest (“to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish); (of a horse) to stop or refuse to go, balk”)..
Gay Garland had carried my father over long to reest with him at the hinderend.
Use reest when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Reest means (Scotland, England, obsolete) Alternative form of rest (“to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish); (of a horse) to stop or refuse to go, balk”)..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Gay Garland had carried my father over long to reest with him at the hinderend.
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