put to sleep
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
help someone go to bed
Mother put the baby to sleep
Types & categories
- put hypernym
Sense 2 verb
kill gently, as with an injection
the cat was very ill and we had to put it to sleep
Types & categories
- kill hypernym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | put |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | kill |