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CAUSE TO SLEEP
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make fall asleep
Example:
The soft music caused us to fall asleep
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "cause to sleep" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Cause:
catch some Z's; kip; log Z's; sleep; slumber (be asleep)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Antonym:
awaken (cause to become awake or conscious)
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