to sleep

idiom

: until one/someone falls asleep
The baby cried himself to sleep. I rocked the baby to sleep.

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“To sleep.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/to%20sleep. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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