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PUT TO SLEEP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does put to sleep mean?
• PUT TO SLEEP (verb)
The verb PUT TO SLEEP has 2 senses:
1. help someone go to bed
2. kill gently, as with an injection
Familiarity information: PUT TO SLEEP used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Help someone go to bed
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Context example:
Mother put the baby to sleep
Hypernyms (to "put to sleep" is one way to...):
put (cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sense 2
Meaning:
Kill gently, as with an injection
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
put away; put to sleep
Context example:
the cat was very ill and we had to put it to sleep
Hypernyms (to "put to sleep" is one way to...):
kill (cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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