GO TO SLEEP

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does go to sleep mean? 

• GO TO SLEEP (verb)
  The verb GO TO SLEEP has 1 sense:

1. prepare for sleep

  Familiarity information: GO TO SLEEP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GO TO SLEEP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Prepare for sleep

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

bed; crawl in; go to bed; go to sleep; hit the hay; hit the sack; kip down; retire; sack out; turn in

Context example:

He goes to bed at the crack of dawn

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go to sleep"):

bed down; bunk down (go to bed)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

Mr. Hurst had therefore nothing to do, but to stretch himself on one of the sofas and go to sleep.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Many people will be pressuring you to rush work out the door, but remember to take tiny breaks and go to sleep a half-hour earlier each night.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“Lie down and go to sleep; I will work for you.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

It was apparent that she did not want to sleep, so I tackled the subject at once:—You do not want to go to sleep?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"You was never like this before. You jes' shut up now, an' go to sleep, an' you'll be all hunkydory in the mornin'. Your stomach's sour, that's what's botherin' you."

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I would give the world to go to sleep.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I've told him he must go to sleep, as you bid him, and he must, if I stay here all night.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I allowed Adele to sit up much later than usual; for she declared she could not possibly go to sleep while the doors kept opening and shutting below, and people bustling about.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

We go down Lake Bennett, snow, ice, wind like a gale, but woman is very tired and go to sleep.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

General anesthesia: affects your whole body. You go to sleep and feel nothing. You have no memory of the procedure afterwards.

(Anesthesia, NIH)