Anagrams of: BEPROSING

• tending to make sober or more serious

• freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)

• the absence of mental stress or anxiety

• a disposition free from stress or emotion

• put or confide something in a person or thing

• be inherent or innate in

• lie when dead

• lean in a comfortable resting position

• put in a horizontal position

• to put something (eg trust) in something

• easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility

• like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it back when compressed

• an angle of 360 degrees

• a workman employed to collect sponges

• a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage

• an inferior imitator of some distinguished writer, artist, or musician

• an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities

• a flexible slender surgical instrument with a blunt end that is used to explore wounds or body cavities

• an exploratory action or expedition

• an investigation conducted using a flexible surgical instrument to explore an injury or a body cavity

• question or examine thoroughly and closely

• examine physically with or as if with a probe

• A snare.

• To sprinkle; to scatter.

• To catch in a springe; to ensnare.