go to sleep

English

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Verb

go to sleep (third-person singular simple present goes to sleep, present participle going to sleep, simple past went to sleep, past participle gone to sleep)

1. To fall asleep.

   I go to sleep at the same hour every night, no matter when I go to bed.

   • 1958 February, Michael Robbins, “Railways and Politics in East Cornwall”, in Railway Magazine, page 127:

     After this, with the disheartening failures after the Railway Mania, railway projection in east Cornwall went to sleep.

2. (idiomatic, figurative) To be affected by paresthesia; to go numb.

   My left leg has gone to sleep!

3. (euphemistic) To die.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:fall asleep
• See also Thesaurus:go to bed

Translations

fall asleep — see fall asleep