| Verb | 1. | put to sleep - help someone go to bed; "Mother put the baby to sleep"put - cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation; "That song put me in awful good humor" | |
| 2. | put to sleep - kill gently, as with an injection; "the cat was very ill and we had to put it to sleep"kill - cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays" | |
| 3. | put to sleep - make unconscious by means of anesthetic drugs; "The patient must be anesthetized before the operation"chloroform - anesthetize with chloroform; "Doctors used to put people under by chloroforming them" drug, dose - administer a drug to; "They drugged the kidnapped tourist" block - interrupt the normal function of by means of anesthesia; "block a nerve"; "block a muscle" | |