Meaning

5 senses

  1. (transitive)To cause (someone) to sleep.

    His boring stories sometimes put me to sleep.

    einschläfern, einlullen

  2. (transitive)To help (someone) to bed.

    After they'd put the kids to sleep, they relaxed by the fire and chatted.

    help someone go to bed

  3. (figuratively, transitive, uncommon)To render dormant.

  4. (euphemistic, transitive)To kill an animal painlessly, often with an injection.

    Near-synonym: put to bed with a shovel (cynical tone)

    It was sad to put our beloved spaniel to sleep, but it was better than letting him suffer.

    einschläfern

    усыпля́тьusypljátʹ, усыпи́тьusypítʹ

    kill gently, as with an injection

  5. (informal)To give a general anesthetic prior to surgery.

    Mommy's surgery is not a big operation but it does require that they put her to sleep for a while.

    усыпля́тьusypljátʹ, усыпи́тьusypítʹ

Examples

64 sentences

  1. Tom is going to put his dog to sleep.

    Том усипить свого собаку. — deniko

    ruТом собирается усыпить свою собаку. — marafon

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  2. Why did you have your dog put to sleep?

    Чому ти усипила свого собаку? — deniko

    ruПочему ты усыпил свою собаку? — marafon

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  3. My vet recommended putting my dog to sleep.

    Мій ветеринар рекомендував усипити мого собаку. — deniko

    ruМой ветеринар порекомендовал мне усыпить собаку. — marafon

    deDer Tierarzt legte mir nahe, meinen Hund einschläfern zu lassen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  4. She's putting the children to sleep.

    ruОна укладывает детей спать. — zhekka

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  5. Tom puts the boys to sleep.

    ruТом укладывает мальчиков спать. — marafon

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to kill an animal:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to cause someone to sleep:

Forms

puts to sleep, putting to sleep, put to sleep, put to sleep
Base formput to sleep · to put to sleep
3rd person singularputs to sleep
Present participleputting to sleep
Past simpleput to sleep
Past participleput to sleep

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyput to sleep
he, she, itputs to sleep

Past simpleLesson

all personsput to sleep

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave put to sleep
he, she, ithas put to sleep

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill put to sleep

Synonyms

9 synonyms
put to bedput downput to resteuthanizeput to bed with a shovelput underanesthetizeanaesthetise
Close in meaning
  • kill gently, as with an injection:put away

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

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