Is it laid to rest or lain to rest?

[lazyostrich587]

People are often perplexed about this group of words. The important thing to remember is that there are two quite separate verbs involved. Lay is also the past tense of the verb lie ('assume a horizontal or resting position'); while lain is the past participle.

[silverleopard339]

Although “layed” is an extremely popular variant spelling of the past tense of transitive “lay,” “laid” is the traditional spelling in all contexts.

One may also ask, what does lay rest mean? lay-to-rest. Verb. (third-person singular simple present lays to rest, present participle laying to rest, simple past and past participle laid to rest) (idiomatic) To bury one who has died. He was laid to rest beneath the old oak tree in 1825.

Just so, was laid to rest?

Definition of lay (someone) to rest : to bury (someone who has died) —usually used as (be) laid to restShe was laid to rest in the churchs graveyard.

How do you use lain in a sentence?

lain Sentence Examples

1. Their residence must have lain chiefly in Indi.
2. The bullet had caught him full in the chest, driving him backward into the scooped out grotto where his uncle had lain for more than half a century.
3. Its colors were pale purple and the bed beneath him more comfortable than any hed lain in.