put to sleep

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To cause (someone) to sleep. transitive
    — His boring stories sometimes put me to sleep.
  2. To help (someone) to bed. transitive
    — After they'd put the kids to sleep, they relaxed by the fire and chatted.
  3. To render dormant. figuratively,transitive,uncommon
    — Our jealousy is only put to sleep by the unlimited confidence we all repose in the person to whom we all look as our president.
  4. To kill an animal painlessly, often with an injection. euphemistic,transitive
    — Near-synonym: put to bed with a shovel (cynical tone)
  5. To give a general anesthetic prior to surgery. informal
    — Mommy's surgery is not a big operation but it does require that they put her to sleep for a while.

词形变化

puts to sleep present,singular,third-person putting to sleep participle,present put to sleep participle,past put to sleep past
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