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put (someone or an animal) to sleep 1. to cause someone or an animal to sleep, perhaps through drugs or anesthesia. The doctor put the patient to sleep before the operation. I put the cat to sleep by stroking its tummy. 2. Euph. to kill someone or an animal. We had to put our dog to sleep. The robber said he'd put us to sleep forever if we didn't cooperate. put someone to sleep 1. to bore someone. That dull lecture put me to sleep. Her long story just put me to sleep. 2. Go to put someone or an animal to sleep. put somebody to sleep 1. to bore someone very much I tried reading one of her novels, but it just put me to sleep. All those technical discussions put everyone to sleep. 2. to help someone sleep The sound of the crickets puts me to sleep every night. put something to sleep to kill an animal medically put something down Mitzie is an old, sick cat, and I think we may have to put her to sleep. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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And at once awoke all my old unrest that John Barleycorn had put to sleep. --Not riddle enough to scare human love from it, not solution enough to put to sleep human wisdom:--a humanly good thing was the world to me to-day, of which such bad things are said! He then gave her a dose of gunpowder dissolved in cold water, and ordered her to be wrapped in buffalo robes and put to sleep under a load of furs and blankets. |
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