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go to sleep

go to sleep verb: to fall asleep.

Verb

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.
    • After this, with the disheartening failures after the Railway Mania, railway projection in east Cornwall went to sleep.1958 February, Michael Robbins, “Railways and Politics in East Cornwall”, in Railway Magazine, page 127
    Synonyms:
    fall asleep
  2. (figuratively, idiomatic) To be affected by paresthesia; to go numb.
    • My left leg has gone to sleep!
  3. (euphemistic) To die.
    • My baby boy, Finnegan, is extremely sick. He isn’t going to make it. I’m with the vet discussing the best course. And… he will be going to sleep.2026 July 4, @sarahaces.bsky.social, Bluesky (post), archived from the original on 04 Jul 2026

go to sleep meaning in Telugu and Malayalam

go to sleep in Telugu

to go to sleep
నిద్రపోవు nidrapōvu, నిద్ర పోవు nidra pōvu

go to sleep in Malayalam

get to sleep, fall asleep, drop off
ഉറങ്ങാൻ പോകുക, ഉറക്കത്തിലാവുക, നിദ്രപൂകുക, കിടക്കറപൂകുക, കിടക്കാൻ പോവുക, കിടക്കുക

Synonyms of go to sleep

Forms of go to sleep

third-person singular presentgoes to sleep
present participlegoing to sleep
pastwent to sleep
past participlegone to sleep

Questions about go to sleep

What does go to sleep mean?
Go to sleep means to fall asleep.
What is go to sleep in Telugu?
Go to sleep in Telugu is నిద్రపోవు (nidrapōvu), నిద్ర పోవు (nidra pōvu). See Go to sleep meaning in Telugu.
What part of speech is go to sleep?
Go to sleep is a verb.
What is the past tense of go to sleep?
The past tense of go to sleep is went to sleep.

Words near go to sleep in the dictionary

  1. go to ratshit
  2. go to sea
  3. go to seed
  4. go to shit
  5. go to show
  6. go to sleep
  7. go to smash
  8. go to someone's head
  9. go to the bad
  10. go to the bathroom
  11. go to the bow-wows

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: go to sleep (page history and authors); నిద్ర పోవు (Telugu) (page history and authors); go to sleep (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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