lay to rest
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[edit]lay to rest (third-person singular simple present lays to rest, present participle laying to rest, simple past and past participle laid to rest)
- (transitive, idiomatic) To bury someone who has died.
- He was laid to rest beneath the old oak tree in 1825.
- (transitive, figurative) To close (a matter of dispute).
- Payment of the court-imposed fine should finally lay this matter to rest.