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lay to rest

vb. (context idiomatic English) To bury one who has died.

WordNet
lay to rest

v. place in a grave or tomb; "Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square"; "The pharaos were entombed in the pyramids"; "My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday" [syn: bury, entomb, inhume, inter]

Usage examples of "lay to rest".

Perhaps Darmouth's hunger to legitimize his rulership extended to this room, where he would lay to rest the dead who would mark his descendants as true kings.

It occurs to me now that another of them has promised us to lay to rest a wager proposed at the banquet.

Now that I have, though, I still have a few ghosts to lay to rest.

Immediately went to see for myself, that I might lay to rest wicked rumors.

That would have allowed me to reluctantly declare him dead and lay to rest a ghost that had long outlived its usefulness.

I am here tonight to lay to rest all the rumors and bring to you the truth of the matter, in all its wonder and all its terror.

Now we have Brian Aldiss's short story that, once and for all, should lay to rest all those vicious rumors about Adolf Hitler being alive and well in Argentina.