Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb put_to_sleep

2 senses of put to sleep

Sense 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"; "put your ideas in writing")

Sense 2
put away, 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")