go to sleep

English

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go to sleep (third-person singular simple present goes to sleep, present participle going to sleep, simple past went to sleep, past participle gone to sleep)

  1. To fall asleep.
    I go to sleep at the same hour every night, no matter when I go to bed.
    • 1958 February, Michael Robbins, “Railways and Politics in East Cornwall”, in Railway Magazine, page 127:
      After this, with the disheartening failures after the Railway Mania, railway projection in east Cornwall went to sleep.
  2. (idiomatic, figurative) To be affected by paresthesia; to go numb.
    My left leg has gone to sleep!
  3. (euphemistic) To die.

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