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went to bed

went to bed is the simple past of go to bed.

Meaning of go to bed

Verb

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

  1. To lie down to sleep, put oneself in one's bed.
    • I go to sleep at the same hour every night, no matter when I go to bed.
  2. (euphemistic) To have sex; to go to have sex.
    • Has he ever been to bed with her?
  3. Of a newspaper: to finish being prepared for printing.
    • The army newspaper "went to bed" several hours before the civilian one, […]1949, Max Eisen, How to Increase Daily Newspaper Circulation, page 43

Questions about went to bed

What is went to bed the simple past of?
Went to bed is the simple past of go to bed.

Words near went to bed in the dictionary

  1. went through the motions
  2. went through the trouble
  3. went through with
  4. went to
  5. went to bat
  6. went to bed
  7. went to bed with
  8. went to bed with the chickens
  9. went to bed with the sun
  10. went to Cain's
  11. went to Canossa

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