put to bed

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Verb

put to bed (third-person singular simple present puts to bed, present participle putting to bed, simple past and past participle put to bed)

1. (transitive) To help someone, for example a child, go to bed.
2. (transitive, idiomatic, printing) To prepare (a newspaper) for printing.

   Coordinate term: go to bed

3. (transitive, idiomatic, sports) To finalise the result, seal a win.
   • 2010 December 28, Kevin Darling, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     Mame Diouf missed a chance to put the game to bed when he fired straight at Carson.

4. (transitive, idiomatic) To dispel.

   I hope we can put those doubts to bed.

Related terms

• bed down
• tuck in
• go to bed
• in bed
• put to rest
• put to bed with a shovel

Translations

help someone go to bed

• Azerbaijani: yatızdırmaq
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 安顿睡觉

• Esperanto: enlitigi
• Estonian: magama panema
• Finnish: laittaa nukkumaan, panna nukkumaan
• French: coucher (fr), mettre au lit
• German: zu Bett bringen
• Greek: αποκοιμίζω (el) (apokoimízo)

  Ancient: κοιτάζω (koitázō)

• Hungarian: lefektet (hu), ágyba tesz, ágyba dug
• Icelandic: svæfa (is), fá til að sofna
• Italian: mettere a letto
• Japanese: 寝かせる (ねかせる, nekaseru)
• Neapolitan: cuccà
• Polish: kłaść do łózka impf, położyć do łózka pf
• Portuguese: pôr para dormir
• Russian: укла́дывать в посте́ль impf (ukládyvatʹ v postélʹ), уложи́ть в посте́ль pf (uložítʹ v postélʹ), укла́дывать спать impf (ukládyvatʹ spatʹ), уложи́ть спать pf (uložítʹ spatʹ)
• Spanish: acostar (es)
• Swedish: lägga (sv), stoppa om