put to bed

Verb

Meaning

(transitive) To help someone, for example a child, go to bed.

(transitive, idiomatic, printing) To prepare (a newspaper) for printing.
Coordinate term: go to bed

(transitive, idiomatic, sports) To finalise the result, seal a win.

(transitive, idiomatic) To dispel.
I hope we can put those doubts to bed.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

put to sleep

Related terms

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

Examples

My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't. Beverly Sills

If there were any doubts, I think that they should be put to bed. Tim Cook

I don't think I'm qualified to answer questions about happiness. But I guess I'd say that I don't think you ever get to put to bed something like a search for order, or any other element of your sensibility, however much you'd like to. Garth Greenwell

We looked at the sky. So many stars, it seemed like a celebration, a grand, illicit party the galaxy was holding after the humans had been put to bed. E. Lockhart

As a kid I would be put to bed when my parents had guests and because I was such a show-off I would go to my mum's room, put on her nightdress and Jackie Onassis shawl, run downstairs, go outside, ring the doorbell and pretend to be one of the guests. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Mrs. So-and-So. Rupert Everett

The greatest king must at last be put to bed with a shovel. Russian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

put through the mill put through the wringer put to put to bed with a shovel put to better use put to death