Wiktionary
vb. 1 To cause (someone) to sleep. 2 To help (someone) to bed. 3 (context figuratively English) To render dormant. 4 (context euphemistic English) To kill an animal painlessly, often with an injection; to euthanize. 5 (context informal English) To give a general anesthetic prior to surgery.
WordNet
v. help someone go to bed; "Mother put the baby to sleep"
kill gently, as with an injection; "the cat was very ill and we had to put it to sleep" [syn: put away]
make unconscious by means of anesthetic drugs; "The patient must be anesthetized before the operation" [syn: anesthetize, anaesthetize, anesthetise, anaesthetise, put under, put out] [ant: bring to]
Wikipedia
The term "put to sleep" may refer to:
- anesthesia
- animal euthanasia
- Actually helping something go to sleep
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Usage examples of "put to sleep".
I'm taking her down to the Humane Society so that she can be put to sleep without hurting.
There on my shoulder was the cat who had been put to sleep when I left Spain, purring and wrapping herself around my neck.
And then they were put to sleep, and laid in their coffins, and the attendant took the tapes to the colony ship, and gave them to the starpilot, who also thanked him, and paid him the money he had promised.
She was dragging a chair in and out of her room, and at intervals objecting to the crying of a baby, which a nurse in the adjoining cottage was endeavoring to put to sleep.
Immediately there were further criesfor the young man whom the Hypnotist had put to sleep was still ascending.
BECAUSE OF THE NATUHE OF ONLY HE STUDIEP AT THE CRITICAL POINT AND WHICH IS TOO DANCEflOL'S AT THE CHITICAL POINT TO STUDY-MANY OF PUT TO SLEEP.