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rest upon

rest upon is the alternative form of rest on.

Meaning of rest on

Verb

rest on (third-person singular simple present rests on, present participle resting on, simple past and past participle rested on)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rest, on.
  2. To depend on.

Forms of rest upon

third-person singular presentrests upon
present participleresting upon
past participlerested upon
pastrested upon

Questions about rest upon

What is rest upon the alternative form of?
Rest upon is the alternative form of rest on.

Words near rest upon in the dictionary

  1. rest stop
  2. rest stops
  3. rest stroke
  4. rest strokes
  5. rest up
  6. rest upon
  7. rest't
  8. rest, residue and remainder
  9. rest-and-digest
  10. rest-harrow
  11. rest.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rest upon (page history and authors); rest on (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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