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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (2)

1. help someone go to bed;
- Example: "Mother put the baby to sleep"

2. kill gently, as with an injection;
- Example: "the cat was very ill and we had to put it to sleep"
[syn: put away, put to sleep]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

put to sleep
    v 1: help someone go to bed; "Mother put the baby to sleep"
    2: kill gently, as with an injection; "the cat was very ill and
       we had to put it to sleep" [syn: put away, put to sleep]