OVERLABOUR Antonyms

• be idle; exist in a changeless situation

• a shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating

• a quantity of food (other than bread) formed in a particular shape

• be lazy or idle

• be about a place without any apparent purpose

• become less tense, rest, or take one's ease

• make less taut

• become loose or looser or less tight

• cause to feel relaxed

• become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner

• make less severe or strict

• become less severe or strict

• make less active or fast

• something left after other parts have been taken away

• freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)

• a pause for relaxation

• a state of inaction

• euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)

• a support on which things can be put

• a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration

• not move; be in a resting position

• take a short break from one's activities in order to relax

• give a rest to

• have a place in relation to something else

• be at rest

• stay the same; remain in a certain state

• be inherent or innate in

• put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying

• sit, as on a branch

• rest on or as if on a pillow

• be inactive, refrain from acting

• reverse the winding or twisting of

• separate the tangles of

• become less tense, rest, or take one's ease

• cause to feel relaxed

• Subordinate work; petty business.

• To require too little work from; to work insufficiently.

• To work or operate in secret or clandestinely.

• To do less work than necessary (on).

• To do work for inadequate payment.

• To injure by working secretly; to destroy or overthrow by clandestine measure; to undermine.

• To do similar work for a lesser price than; to undercut.

• move in order to make room for someone for something

• become less intense

• reduce pressure or intensity

• become less in amount or intensity

• settle into a comfortable sitting position