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lay to rest

lay to rest verb: to perform funerary services, especially burial, for someone who has died.

Verb

lay to rest (third-person singular simple present lays to rest, present participle laying to rest, simple past and past participle laid to rest)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To perform funerary services, especially burial, for someone who has died.
    • Near-synonyms: entomb, inhume, inter, bury
    • He was laid to rest beneath the old oak tree in 1825.
    Synonyms:
    entomb, inhume, inter, bury
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To close (a matter of dispute).
    • Payment of the court-imposed fine should finally lay this matter to rest.
    • TIn front of a record women's rugby crowd of 81,885, the Red Roses, who had lost the previous two finals to New Zealand, laid that ghost to rest with an assured display built on their power up front and ferocious defence.2025 September 27, Alastair Telfer, “England overpower Canada to win Women's World Cup”, in BBC Sport

lay to rest meaning in Kannada and Gujarati

lay to rest in Kannada

ಸಮಾಧಿಮಾಡು

lay to rest in Gujarati

to lay to rest
દફનાવવું daphnāvvũ

Synonyms of lay to rest

All synonyms of lay to rest

Forms of lay to rest

third-person singular presentlays to rest
present participlelaying to rest
past participlelaid to rest
pastlaid to rest

Questions about lay to rest

What does lay to rest mean?
Lay to rest means to perform funerary services, especially burial, for someone who has died.
What is lay to rest in Kannada?
Lay to rest in Kannada is ಸಮಾಧಿಮಾಡು. See Lay to rest meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is lay to rest?
Lay to rest is a verb.
What is the past tense of lay to rest?
The past tense of lay to rest is laid to rest.

Words near lay to rest in the dictionary

  1. lay the smack down
  2. lay the table
  3. lay the wood
  4. lay to
  5. lay to heart
  6. lay to rest
  7. lay tracks
  8. lay up
  9. lay up in lavender
  10. lay up with
  11. lay upon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lay to rest (page history and authors); lay to rest (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); દફનાવવું (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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