lay/put (something) to rest

idiom

: to make someone stop thinking about or believing (something) by showing it is not true

I want to lay/put to rest any lingering doubts about my decision.

You can lay/put those worries to rest now.

Examples of lay/put (something) to rest in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Jacob Appell, a professor at New York’s Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai who has studied presidential illnesses, said the most recent O’Connor letter in February does not put to rest questions about Biden’s mental condition. —

Dan Diamond, Washington Post, 6 July 2024 The deal appears to have, at least for the moment, put to rest internal turmoil at the environmental group over allegations of retaliatory layoffs and financial mismanagement. —

Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2024 This might put to rest the extreme forms of neoliberalism, the free-market ideology pioneered by University of Chicago economists such as Gary Becker, Milton Friedman, and George Stigler. —

Francis Fukuyama, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020 The Oscar winner, 69, put to rest speculation about a return more than a year after news of his departure broke. —

Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for lay/put (something) to rest

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