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GO TO SLEEP
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Prepare for sleep
Example:
He goes to bed at the crack of dawn
Synonyms:
bed; crawl in; go to bed; go to sleep; hit the hay; hit the sack; kip down; retire; sack out; turn in
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go to sleep"):
bed down; bunk down (go to bed)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Context examples:
Afraid to go to sleep! Why so?
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
"Stay as you are, and go to sleep if you like. I intend to work hard," said Amy in her most energetic tone.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The woman sleep one day and a half. Then she wake up and go to sleep again.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Nevertheless he comforted his little sister, and said: “Do not cry, Gretel, go to sleep quietly, the good God will help us.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Very cold I was, I know, notwithstanding the hot tea they had given me before a large fire downstairs; and very glad I was to turn into the Dolphin's bed, pull the Dolphin's blankets round my head, and go to sleep.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
So I went back to bed again, but determined not to go to sleep.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
If you told him to stay up there, and go to sleep alone, make him do it, or he will never learn to mind you.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The man sleep two days and wake up and go to sleep again.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
The man who had been playing the harp all night, was trying in vain to cover it with an ordinary-sized nightcap, when I awoke; or I should rather say, when I left off trying to go to sleep, and saw the sun shining in through the window at last.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I tried to go to sleep, but could not.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
