Put to sleep
The crossword clue "Put to sleep" is answered by BORE, a 4-letter entry. Used 20 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
BORE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BORE answer page.
Used 20 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- OPIATED (2 uses in xd)
Other clues for BORE
Every other clue in this collection answered by BORE, most used first.
- Drill - used 61 times, most recently in 2026
- Snoozefest - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Tiresome person - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Yawn inducer - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Drill a hole - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Use a drill - used 23 times, most recently in 2023
- Dull speaker - used 20 times, most recently in 2024
- Tiresome one - used 19 times, most recently in 2021
- Party pooper - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
- Yawner - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Tiresome speaker - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Caliber. - used 14 times, most recently in 1993
- Cause to yawn - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Make yawn - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Use an auger - used 12 times, most recently in 2014
- Drag - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
- Cylinder diameter - used 10 times, most recently in 2013
- Dull person - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Tedious sort - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Uninteresting person - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Wet blanket - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- Dullard - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Yawn-inducing speaker - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Carried - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Tedious fellow - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Yawn producer - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Drill (into) - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Dull fellow - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
- Total snoozefest - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Induce yawning - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
- Make a hole - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Put to sleep, perhaps - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Tedious person - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Tiresome talker - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Yawn-inducing sort - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Put away - STOW, used 205 times
- Put on the payroll - HIRE, used 105 times
- Put out - EMIT, used 103 times
- Sleep like ___ - ALOG, used 96 times
- "Put ___ on it!" - ALID, used 95 times
- Deep sleep - COMA, used 87 times
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