- sleep, put to
- Painlessly kill (of animals),
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put something to sleep — PUT DOWN, destroy. → sleep * * * put something to sleep phrase to give an animal drugs so that it dies quickly without feeling any pain Poor old Spot had to be put to sleep. Thesaurus: treating animals and animal welfarehyponym Main entry: sleep… … Useful english dictionary
put to sleep — verb 1. help someone go to bed (Freq. 1) Mother put the baby to sleep • Hypernyms: ↑put • Verb Frames: Somebody s somebody Something s somebody 2. kill gently, as with an injection … Useful english dictionary
sleep */*/*/ — I UK [sliːp] / US [slɪp] verb Word forms sleep : present tense I/you/we/they sleep he/she/it sleeps present participle sleeping past tense slept UK [slept] / US past participle slept 1) [intransitive] to go into a natural state in which you are… … English dictionary
sleep — 1. noun go and have a sleep Syn: nap, doze, siesta, catnap, beauty sleep; informal snooze, forty winks, bit of shut eye, power nap; literary slumber 2. verb she slept for about an hour go to sleep put an animal to sleep … Thesaurus of popular words
put down — Synonyms and related words: Parthian shot, abase, abasement, abash, account for, accredit with, accrete to, acknowledge, affront, annihilate, ante, ante up, apply to, ascribe to, aspersion, asphyxiate, assign to, atrocity, attach to, attribute to … Moby Thesaurus
put down — 1) informal she often puts me down Syn: criticize, belittle, disparage, deprecate, denigrate, slight, humiliate, shame, crush, squash, deflate; informal show up, cut down to size 2) I put him down as shy … Thesaurus of popular words
put something down — 1 he put his ideas down on paper: WRITE DOWN, note down, jot down, take down, set down; list, record, register, log. 2 they put down the rebellion: SUP … Useful english dictionary
put — [ put ] (past tense and past participle put) verb transitive *** ▸ 1 move something to position ▸ 2 cause to be in situation ▸ 3 write/print something ▸ 4 make someone go to place ▸ 5 give position on list ▸ 6 build/place somewhere ▸ 7 express in … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
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 … New idioms dictionary
put — W1S1 [put] v past tense and past participle put present participle putting [T] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(move to place)¦ 2¦(change somebody s situation/feelings)¦ 3¦(write/print something)¦ 4¦(express)¦ 5 put a stop/an end to something 6 put something into… … Dictionary of contemporary English
