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GO TO BED
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Prepare for sleep
Example:
He goes to bed at the crack of dawn
Synonyms:
bed; crawl in; go to bed; go to sleep; hit the hay; hit the sack; kip down; retire; sack out; turn in
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go to bed"):
bed down; bunk down (go to bed)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Antonym:
get up (get up and out of bed)
Context examples:
We must think of something else, said the king; keep your shoes on when you go to bed, and before you come back from the place where you are taken, hide one of them there, I will soon contrive to find it.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I was too shaken to go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your advice.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If you mean Darcy, cried her brother, he may go to bed, if he chooses, before it begins—but as for the ball, it is quite a settled thing; and as soon as Nicholls has made white soup enough, I shall send round my cards.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
When you go to bed lock the door of this room on the outside and keep the key.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And as this, he added, after these magnanimous words, is not a fit scene for the boy—David, go to bed!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Van Helsing did not go to bed at all.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
"I will leave you," said Elinor, "if you will go to bed."
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Not, however, to go to bed: on the contrary, I began and dressed myself carefully.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
No one wanted to go to bed when at ten o'clock Mrs. March put by the last finished job, and said, "Come girls."
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
This conversation they are apt to run into with the same temper that boys discover in delighting to hear terrible stories of spirits and hobgoblins, which they greedily listen to, and dare not go to bed for fear.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
