lay to rest
Put to ground
To lay to rest is to bury someone: We laid her to rest beside her husband.
Figuratively, it means to settle or dispel something definitively: The DNA evidence laid to rest any doubts about his innocence.
Both senses involve finality—ending physical life or ending a matter of concern.
settle
Reach final terms
end · closure · dismiss · refute · disprove · quash · silence · put aside · debunk · clarify
interment
Putting a body underground
coffin · crypt · tombstone · mausoleum · graveyard · sepulcher · eulogy · mourners · hearse · pallbearer
- funeral ritesfuneral, bury, burial, funeral mass, burial rites
- endingsending, the end, finish, close, final
lay to restexhume
Unbury the dead
disinter · dig up · unearth · disinterment · excavate
lay to restrevive
Restore consciousness or vigor
resurrect · bring back to life · reanimate · resuscitate · raise from the dead
rest, lay, layer, layout, resting, restful, relay, rested, laying