Put To Sleep

Definition: Put To Sleep

Put To Sleep

Verb

1. Help someone go to bed; "Mother put the baby to sleep".

2. Kill gently, as with an injection, as of pet animals.

3. Make unconscious by means of anesthetic drugs; "The patient must be anesthetized before the operation".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Put To Sleep

Crosswords: Put To Sleep

He says it should be put to sleep, because it's an old dog anyway. (Addicted to Love; writing credit: Robert Gordon)

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There was also seized in the cell a half empty bottle, containing the rest of the drugged wine with which the soldier had been put to sleep.

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Health

Although the recommendation appears simple (most babies should be put to sleep on their backs), a variety of questions have arisen about the practicalities of implementation. (references)

The donor is put to sleep with a light general anesthesia, and bone marrow is removed through a large needle inserted into the pelvic bone in the lower back. A small amount of marrow is removed from each of several sites. (references)

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Expression using "put to sleep": put to sleep again. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏نوم (put smb. to bed, rest, send smb. to sleep, shake down, shut eye, sleep), ‏قتله. (various references)

Bulgarian 

слагам да спи (put to bed), приспивам (drowse, lull, opiate, put off, rock to sleep). (various references)

Czech

uspat (drug, narcotize, sleep). (various references)

Dutch

in slaap doen vallen. (various references)

Esperanto

dormigi. (various references)

Faeroese

fáa at sovna. (various references)

Finnish

lopettaa (close, complete, conclude, destroy, end, finish, leave, put down, stop). (various references)

French

faire endormir, endormir, assoupir. (various references)

German

einschläfern (give a soporific, lull to sleep, make drowsy, make sleepy, put away, put down, quiet, quieten, send to sleep, soothe). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"שכיב לישון, ל�"ר�"ים (narcotize). (various references)

Hungarian

lefektet (laid, lay, lay to rest, put to bed, to bed, to lay, to lay down, to put to bed, to repose), elaltat (drowse, narcotize, to lull, to narcotize). (various references)

Italian

anestetizzare (anaesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthetise, anesthetize), abbattere (bowl over, break, break down, cut down, deject, demolish, down, fall, fell, flatten, knock down, lay, lose heart, overthrow, put down, rase, raze, shoot down, smash down, smash in, throw). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

寝かす (to layon its side, to put to sleep). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ねかす (to layon its side, to put to sleep). (various references)

Pig Latin

utpay otay eepslay

Polish

usypiać. (various references)

Portuguese

fazerdormir. (various references)

Russian 

усыпить (lull), уложить спать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uspavati (narcotize). (various references)

Spanish

sacrificar un animal, hacer dormir, adormecer (drowse, lull, narcotize), acostar (bed down, lay down, put, put to bed, tuck up). (various references)

Swedish

söva (lull to sleep). (various references)

Turkish

yatırmak (bed, credit, deposit, embark, fund, incline, instate, invest, lay down, lay low, pay into, place, put to bed, repose, repose on, shelter, sink, subscribe), uyutmak (anaesthetize, drowse, hypnotize, narcotize), uyutarak öldürmek, iğne ile öldürmek, bayıltmak. (various references)

consopire, consopiti, consopitus. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: eelpouts, estoppel, outsleep, outslept, outspelt, septuple.

-3 letters: eelpout, outlets, peepuls, peoples, pettles, pottles, puttees, stopple, teleost, topples, toupees, tupelos.

-4 letters: elopes, elutes, letups, lottes, loupes, outlet, outsee, outset, peepul, people, peplos, peplus, pestle, pettle, pottle, poults, puttee, septet, setout, settle, solute, steppe, supple, suttee, topees, topple, toupee, tousle, tupelo, tutees, upstep.

-5 letters: elope, elute.

+5 letters: supplementation.