come to rest

English

Verb

come to rest (third-person singular simple present comes to rest, present participle coming to rest, simple past came to rest, past participle come to rest)

1. To stop moving.
   • 1941 October, “Notes and News: A Highland Runaway”, in Railway Magazine, page 469:

     They were all doomed to be disappointed, however, for the errant engine decided at Stanley junction to spend the remainder of its crowded hour of freedom on the Aberdeen line, and finally came to rest, short of breath, in the dip between Ballathie and Cargill, near the bridge over the Tay.

   • 1946 March and April, C. R. L. Coles, “Re-Railing the Locomotive at Bourne End”, in Railway Magazine, page 95:

     It will be recalled that the engine (No. 6157 of the "Royal Scot" class) overturned down a bank and, together with its tender, came to rest in a field of mangolds.

References

• “come to rest”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.