go to sleep

present singular third person goes to sleep · participle present going to sleep · past went to sleep · participle past gone to sleep

1. To fall asleep.

   I go to sleep at the same hour every night, no matter when I go to bed.

   1 more example

   After this, with the disheartening failures after the Railway Mania, railway projection in east Cornwall went to sleep.

   1958 February 28, Michael Robbins, “Railways and Politics in East Cornwall”, in Railway Magazine, page 127

   Synonyms: fall asleep

2. figurativelyidiomaticTo be affected by paresthesia; to go numb.

   My left leg has gone to sleep!

3. euphemisticTo 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