put to bed

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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:
      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.

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