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.
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Ahead of the 2025 season, that uncertainty can finally be put to rest.
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Meg Linehan, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
Gelfond also put to rest any talk Hollywood faces a superhero fatigue in its box office and audience reactions to its tentpole releases like Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and The Marvels.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2024
The theory is soon put to rest, though, when Rivera Garza starts receiving strange messages from the killer, signed with the names of different female artists.
—Nicolás Medina Mora, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2025
But will its Grammy success open the floodgates for more veteran artists to do the impossible — access and alter old recordings so that the past is never truly put to rest?
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
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Meg Linehan, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
Gelfond also put to rest any talk Hollywood faces a superhero fatigue in its box office and audience reactions to its tentpole releases like Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and The Marvels.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2024
The theory is soon put to rest, though, when Rivera Garza starts receiving strange messages from the killer, signed with the names of different female artists.
—Nicolás Medina Mora, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2025
But will its Grammy success open the floodgates for more veteran artists to do the impossible — access and alter old recordings so that the past is never truly put to rest?
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
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“Lay/put (something) to rest.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lay%2Fput%20%28something%29%20to%20rest. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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