send1
/sɛnd
/verb (past and past participle sent /sɛnt/)
1 [with object] Cause to go or be taken to a particular destination; arrange for the delivery of, especially by post: we sent a reminder letter but received no reply [with two objects]: he sent her a nice little note...
- Twenty-three letters were sent by recorded delivery on one day.
- Letters informing parents were sent by first class post yesterday.
- A letter is to be sent to the Post Office and a special meeting of the council is being organised.
Synonyms
dispatch, post, mail, put in the post/mail, address, get off, convey, consign, direct, forward, redirect, send on, remit, airmail
transmit, convey, communicate;
telephone, phone, broadcast, televise, telecast, radio, fax, email, upload, ISDN, FTP
dated telegraph, wire, cable
1.1Cause (a message or computer file) to be transmitted electronically: send your document as a PDF attachment [with two objects]: I sent him an email last week...
- This morning the entire office was unable to send emails until about 2 pm.
- He admitted dangerous driving after sending text messages while driving over 60 mph on a motorway.
- This morning the Chief Executive Officer sent out an email imploring everyone to take all possible precautions in the current climate.
1.2Order or instruct to go to a particular destination or in a particular direction: the BBC sent me to Washington to cover the trial...
- The judge then gave his majority direction and sent the jury away for further deliberations.
- Jade Emperor cried, and he summoned Mountain God, ordering him to send mountains to fall upon the dragons.
- The principal printed out her entries, made her do corrective work order, and even sent her for counselling.
1.3 [no object, with infinitive] Send a message or letter: he sent to invite her to supper...
- He was more a man of deeds than of words - he always performed what he promised, and when this had been done, he sent to let the petitioner know that his wishes had been granted.
- Mr. Norton allowed the child to lie ill for a week - indeed to be at death's door - before he sent to inform me.
1.4 [with object and adverbial of direction] Cause to move sharply or quickly; propel: the volcano sent clouds of ash up four miles into the air...
- In any kind of breeze they smoke like a forest fire, sending clouds of grey dust over the moored yachts and into harbourside streets.
- She managed only to claw the piled ash, sending a cloud into the air.
- Mike quickly pushed forward sending random shots toward them as the five of them cleared off.
Synonyms
propel, project, send forth, eject, deliver, discharge, spout, fire, shoot, blast, catapult, launch, release, force, push, impel, ram;
throw, fling, toss, lob, hurl, shy, cast, let fly
informal chuck, sling, bung
1.5 (send someone to) Arrange for someone to go to (an institution) and stay there for a particular purpose: many parents prefer to send their children to single-sex schools...
- Magistrates sent Harris to a young offenders institution for 90 days.
- The brutality of ‘Victorian’ responses to otherness is echoed in Walter's bleak experience in the institution he is sent to after the death of his parents.
- That is the way with war crimes such as genocide, the charge which has sent Krstic to prison for the rest of his life.
2 [with object and complement] Cause to be in a specified state: while driving in London I was sent crazy by roadworks...
- I think this sudden heatwave is sending me kinda crazy.
- People weren't generally allowed to work at the Workshop for more than three months at a time. They thought it would send people crazy.
- The whispers in the walls were sending me slowly crazy, and the constant whirring of my empty mind made me feel dizzy.
Synonyms
make, drive, cause to be/become
2.1 [with object] informal Affect with powerful emotion; put into ecstasy: it’s the spectacle and music that send us, not the words...
- Another neighbour said the murders had sent a wave of emotion through the tight-knit community.
- A word of praise from the shop girl sends a flare of ecstasy over her face.
- When not drinking kava, the islanders grow coffee, the kind that sends coffee buyers into ecstasies.
Synonyms
excite, stimulate, move, rouse, stir, thrill, electrify, intoxicate, enrapture, enthral, grip, ravish, charm, delight, give pleasure to, titillate
informal turn on, blow away, give someone a buzz/kick, stoke
Phrases
send someone flying
send someone packing
send someone to Coventry
send someone to the showers
send word
Phrasal verbs
send away for
send someone down
send something down
send for
send something in
send off for
send someone off
send something off
send something on
send something out
send someone/thing up
Derivatives
sendable
- This sample demonstrates how to use a custom sendable form.
- What if every note you ever took was saveable, searchable and sendable?
Origin
Old English sendan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zenden and German senden.
Rhymes
send2
/sɛnd/noun & verb
Variant spelling of scend.