put to sleep

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put someone 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.

See also: sleep

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And at once awoke all my old unrest that John Barleycorn had put to sleep. John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context --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! Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context 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. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context More results

References in classic literature

And at once awoke all my old unrest that John Barleycorn had put to sleep.

John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context

--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!

Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context

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.

The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context

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