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  1. Learn the meaning of lay someone to rest as an idiom for burying a dead person or ending a worry or fear. See examples, synonyms and translations in English and Chinese.

  2. Dec 12, 2016 · Learn the meaning and usage of the idiom lay (someone) to rest, which means to bury someone who has died. See example sentences from recent sources and related articles on lay and lie.

  3. Learn the meaning and usage of the phrase "laid to rest", which means to bury someone who has died. See examples, synonyms, and related expressions from various sources.

  4. Idiom language: English. Synonyms: (to bury one who has died): entomb, inhume, inter, bury, grave. To lay something or someone to rest can mean several things. At its core, it refers to putting something or someone away permanently.

  5. Learn the meaning and usage of the phrase "lay to rest", which can mean to bury someone who has died or to stop thinking about something. See examples, synonyms, and related expressions from various sources.

  6. lay to rest. Bury; also, settle something with finality. In the first sense, this expression dates from the late nineteenth century, although rest in the sense of death was so used from about 1400 on. It appears in an American cowboy song, “And they laid him down to rest, with a lily on his chest.”.

  7. Lay to rest means to bury a dead person or to allay a problem. See the full dictionary entry, synonyms, pronunciation, and usage examples of lay to rest.