English Dictionary

put to sleep

動詞

他動詞 比喩的用法 婉語 くだけた表現

(transitive) To cause (someone) to sleep. / (transitive) To help (someone) to bed; put to bed. / (transitive, figuratively) To render dormant.

日本語の意味

（他動詞）誰かを眠らせる、寝かしつける、就寝させる / （他動詞・比喩的に）活動や機能を休止させる、不活性にする

Reluctantly, they chose to put to sleep the aging dog to end its suffering.

ためらいながら、彼らはその老犬の苦しみを終わらせるために眠らせることにした。

意味（1）

(transitive) To cause (someone) to sleep.

When even the silence and seclusion of this retreat failed to bring slumber, he sometimes called in a professional mesmerizer to put him into a hypnotic sleep, from which Sawyer knew how to arouse him at a fixed time. This habit, as well as the existence of the underground chamber, were secrets known only to Sawyer and the hypnotist who rendered his services. On the night of May 30, 1887, West sent for the latter, and was put to sleep as usual.

意味（2）

(transitive) To help (someone) to bed; put to bed.

Grandpa Brown rode off with Mr. and Mrs. Kendall; and Bunny and Sue were given a good dinner and put to sleep that afternoon, for they were tired, sleepy and hungry.

意味（3）

(transitive, figuratively) To render dormant.

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.

意味（4）

(transitive, euphemistic) To kill an animal painlessly, often with an injection; to euthanize.

In one instance where a large number of dogs were put to sleep in the lethal chamber, one was found in deepest sleep, but still breathing, side by side and partly covered by another that was not only dead but cold and rigid.

意味（5）

(informal) To give a general anesthetic prior to surgery.

puts to sleep （ present singular third-person ）

putting to sleep （ participle present ）

put to sleep （ participle past ）

put to sleep （ past ）