send1
v.
(past and past part. sent)
- cause to go or be taken or delivered to a particular destination.
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(send someone to)
arrange for someone to attend (an institution).
- cause to move sharply or quickly; propel.
- cause to be in a specified state:
it nearly sent me crazy.
- informal cause to feel ecstasy or elation.
Phrase
- send someone to Coventry
chiefly Brit. refuse to associate with or speak to someone.
[perh. from the unpopularity of royalist soldiers or prisoners quartered in Coventry (sympathetic to parliament) during the English Civil War.]
- send word
send a message.
Phrase verbal
- send someone down
Brit. - expel a student from a university.
- informal sentence someone to imprisonment.
- send for
- order or instruct (someone) to come to one; summon.
- order by post.
- send someone off
(of a soccer or rugby referee) order a player to leave the field and take no further part in the game. - send someone up
US sentence someone to imprisonment. - send someone/thing up
informal, chiefly Brit. ridicule someone or something by exaggerated imitation.
Derivative
Etymology
OE sendan, of Gmc origin.