put to sleep

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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
- the cat was very ill and we had to put it to sleep
• Syn:
put away
• Hypernyms:
kill
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something