English

Verb

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
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.

Related terms

• bed down
• go to bed
• in bed
• get out of bed
• put to bed with a shovel
• after bed
• until bed

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