put or send
Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 3:43 pm
Please tell me which word I should use in the following sentence, PUT or SEND:
Boring movies often SEND OR PUT me to sleep.
Thanks a lot.
Boring movies often SEND OR PUT me to sleep.
Thanks a lot.
send someone to sleep = make someone sleep through boredomHung Tao wrote:Please tell me which word I should use in the following sentence, PUT or SEND:
Boring movies often SEND OR PUT me to sleep.
put someone to sleep = make someone unconscious with drugs or an anaesthetic
put an animal to sleep = kill an animal painlessly
Your sentence would be:
Boring movies often send me to sleep. :r: