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单词 put something to sleep
释义

put something to sleep

Kill an animal, especially an old or badly injured one, painlessly (used euphemistically): they took their pit bull terrier on a trip to France before having her put to sleep...
  • In it she claimed that she had ‘found a cure for things the vet put your animal to sleep for.’
  • Even when it involves visiting farms, making house calls or putting a terminally-ill animal to sleep, ‘it's what we are there for’.
  • There have been rumours that we put animals to sleep once we cannot house them.

Synonyms

put down, destroy, put out of its misery
See parent entry: sleep
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