What are some opposite words for put to sleep?
Antonyms for put to sleepput to sleep
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term put to sleep.
Princeton's WordNet
put to sleepverb
help someone go to bed
"Mother put the baby to sleep"
Synonyms:
put awayput away, put to sleepverb
kill gently, as with an injection
"the cat was very ill and we had to put it to sleep"
Synonyms:
lag, lock away, cast out, shut away, toss, throw out, lock in, toss out, fling, jail, remand, imprison, jug, cast away, put behind bars, chuck out, shut up, dispose, gaol, throw away, tuck away, incarcerate, tuck in, immure, put aside, lock, lock up, cast aside, put away, toss away, discard
How to use put to sleep in a sentence?
I used to work for a high-kill animal shelter, and I knew what happened to the old dogs when they came in. I remember one dog who animal control literally picked up from the side of his dead owner’s body, and he didn’t even have an opportunity to be adopted. He was put to sleep because we didn’t have space.
They know each one of us. When I pick them up, they know my voice and they know my feel. They just snuggle in and we rock, i usually put them to sleep -- if the nurses need a baby put to sleep they bring them to me.
My father feels terrible that the dogs are probably going to be put to sleep, the pit bull is not an inherently evil dog. But ... these pit bulls might have been trained as guard or attack dogs. He remembers the dogs licking his blood off the ground. They wanted to finish the job. That's very disturbing to him.
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