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go to bed
verb
prepare for sleep (Freq. 4)
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I usually turn in at midnight

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He goes to bed at the crack of dawn

• Syn:
↑turn in, ↑bed, ↑crawl in, ↑kip down, ↑hit the hay, ↑hit the sack, ↑sack out, ↑go to sleep, ↑retire
• Ant: ↑turn out (for: ↑turn in), ↑get up
• Hyponyms: ↑bed down, ↑bunk down
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s

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RETIRE, call it a day; go to sleep, have/take a nap, have a doze, get some sleep; informal hit the sack, hit the hay, turn in, snatch forty winks, get some shut-eye; Brit. informal have a kip, get some kip, hit the pit; N. Amer. informal catch some Zs.
→ bed

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phrasal
1. : to go to press

when the paper went to bed at midafternoon he relaxed — T.W.Duncan

2. : to engage in sexual relations

is in the habit of going to bed with practically anybody who asks her to — Wolcott Gibbs

3.
a. of a card : to fail to win through being withheld during early play
b. of a cardplayer : to lose the opportunity to win by withholding a winning card from early play

Useful english dictionary. 2012.