put to rest
End the matter
To put something to rest is to settle it finally, ending doubt or discussion: Let me put those rumors to rest.
The phrase carries finality—once something is put to rest, it shouldn't need revisiting.
To put someone to rest is a gentler way of saying to bury them: We put my grandfather to rest last Tuesday.
Reach final terms
- resolveFirmness of purpose
- concludeEnd or infer
- finalizeSettle decisively
- closureSense of emotional resolution
end · dispel · quash · squash · silence · dismiss · refute · debunk
Serious and worrying
- intermentPutting a body underground
- cemeteryPlace for interring remains
- funeralService honoring the dead
- coffinBurial container for remains
tomb · crypt · tombstone · mausoleum · graveyard · sepulcher · mortician · eulogy
settle
Reach final terms
closure · end · dispel · quash · squash · silence · dismiss · refute · debunk · disprove
grave
Serious and worrying
- intermentPutting a body underground
- cemeteryPlace for interring remains
- funeralService honoring the dead
coffin · tomb · crypt · tombstone · mausoleum · graveyard · sepulcher · mortician · eulogy · hearse
tranquility
Undisturbed peacefulness
ease · comfort · solace · quietude · sleep · slumber · relaxation · final sleep · release · relief
- endingsending, the end, finish, close, final
- Moving Onlet go, move on, closure, acceptance, fresh start