send
/sɛnd/ verb A2- To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone). · Every day at two o'clock, he sends his secretary out to buy him a coffee.· She sends me a letter every month.
- To get one going; move to excitement or rapture; to delight or thrill. · I don't know what it is, but this music really sends me.
- To amuse greatly or otherwise stun by absurdity.
- To bring to a certain condition, to drive.
- To dispatch an agent or messenger to find and return with a specified person or thing. · Seeing how ill she was, we sent for a doctor at once.
- To pitch.
- To climb a route without falling. · She finally sent the 12a after hours of failed attempts.
- To pursue (a course of action) committedly, enthusiastically, and often recklessly; go for.
Plural send · He/she/it sends · Past sent · Past participle sent · -ing form sending
Verb forms
- Base form
- send
- He/she/it
- sends
- Past
- sent
- Past participle
- sent
- -ing form
- sending
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- send around To forward something to others.
- send away To dismiss from one's presence.
- send back To return (something) to its origin.
- send down To cause something or someone to pass from a higher to a ...
- send in To give (one's name), present (one's card) when making a ...
- send off To send; to dispatch.
- send on To introduce (a substitute) into the game.
- send out To issue, dispatch or transmit.
- send up Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see send, up.
From the library
When they saw the Witch of the East was dead the Munchkins sent a swift messenger to me, and I came at once.
“My name is Dorothy,” said the girl, “and I am going to the Emerald City, to ask the Great Oz to send me back to Kansas.”
I gave the custom-house officers a copy of our bill of lading; and as to the other papers, they sent a man off with the pilot, to whom I gave them.”
Not long afterwards the Horse, having become broken-winded, was sent by his owner to the farm.
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