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go to sleep

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. To fall asleep.
  2. To be affected by paresthesia; to go numb.
    figuratively, idiomatic
  3. To die.
    euphemistic

Equivalents

日本語寝付く痺れる
العربيةنام
5 more languages

Examples

“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⟳.”
“My left leg has gone to sleep⟳!”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

go to smash go to someone's head go to the bad go to the bathroom go to the bow-wows go to the country

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