Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb lay_to_rest
1 sense of lay to rest
Sense 1
bury, entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest -- (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")
=> lay, put down, repose -- (put in a horizontal position; "lay the books on the table"; "lay the patient carefully onto the bed")