put at rest
Example Sentences
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Taylor said his mind was put at rest at a cast dinner before shooting on the movie began.
From Reuters • Sep. 28, 2021
She considered the hearing "an absurd circus" and wanted to testify as soon as she was medically able "in order to put at rest false rumors, innuendos and outright lies."
From Time Magazine Archive
These rumors are automatically put at rest by the explicit announcement that he will follow tradition and run again.
From Time Magazine Archive
To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
It was supposed by some that this whole agitation might be stayed, and finally put at rest by skilfully adjusted legislation.
From American Eloquence, Volume 3 Studies In American Political History (1897) by Johnston, Alexander
