- put to sleep
- verb1. help someone go to bed (Freq. 1)-
Mother put the baby to sleep
• Hypernyms: ↑put• Verb Frames:-Somebody ——s somebody
-Something ——s somebody
2. kill gently, as with an injection-the cat was very ill and we had to put it to sleep
• Syn: ↑put away• Hypernyms: ↑kill• Verb Frames:-Somebody ——s something
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put to sleep1. To anaesthetize2. To kill (an animal) painlessly (euphemistic)• • •Main Entry: ↑sleep* * *
put to sleep1 put (an animal) to sleep : to give (a sick or injured animal) drugs that will make it die without painWe had to put my cat to sleep last week.
2 put (someone) to sleep2 a informal : to use a drug to make (someone) unconscious before a medical operation : to give (someone) anesthesia before a medical operationThe doctor put the patient to sleep.
Did you put the kids to sleep? [=did you put the kids to bed?]
2 c : to make someone fall asleep from boredomThat movie practically put me to sleep.
Her lectures used to put him to sleep.
• • •Main Entry: ↑sleep
Useful english dictionary. 2012.