What does lay to rest mean?

lay to rest means "place in a grave or tomb".

What is another word for lay to rest?

Close synonyms include bury, entomb, inhume, inter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lay to rest a common word?

lay to rest is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

lay to rest — meaning, pronunciation and definition

verb

1 senseAn action, occurrence or state of being.

1.
place in a grave or tomb
“Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square”
“The pharaohs were entombed in the pyramids”
“My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday”
Synonymsbury entomb inhume inter
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