send down
verb- To cause something or someone to pass from a higher to a lower place.
- To bowl.
- To commit (someone) to a prison term. · Eventually she was caught, and sent down for twelve years.
- To demote a player within the levels of professional baseball. · After performing poorly for the first month of the season, he was sent down to the minor leagues.
- To send a person to the countryside to become a peasant-farmer for re-education; to get in touch with the fundamental values of peasant-based communism (as opposed to urban worker-class proletariat-based communism).
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Why does not God, if he really hates the wicked, as he is said to do, send down brimstone and fire, and consume them altogether?”
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