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English verb: put to sleep | |||
| 1. | put to sleep (contact) help someone go to bed | ||
| Samples | Mother put the baby to sleep. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | put | ||
| 2. | put to sleep (contact) kill gently, as with an injection | ||
| Samples | The cat was very ill and we had to put it to sleep. | ||
| Synonyms | put away | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | kill | ||
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