the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [verb (transitive)] > put to or cause to sleep (22)
transitive. To put to sleep (or to death), lull to rest; also, to stupefy.
Into a state of sleep; esp, in the phrases to fall, lull, lay (bringobs.) asleep.
transitive. To cause to sleep; to render inactive or inoperative; to dull or deaden. Obsolete.
transitive. To put to sleep; to dull, stupefy.
transitive. To put to sleep.
transitive. To succeed in getting (a child) to go to sleep. colloquial.
To cause to sleep or fall asleep.