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ALL meanings of sends

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  • verb with object sends to cause, permit, or enable to go: to send a messenger; They sent their son to college. 1
  • verb with object sends to cause to be conveyed or transmitted to a destination: to send a letter. 1
  • verb with object sends to order, direct, compel, or force to go: The president sent troops to Asia. 1
  • verb with object sends to direct, propel, or deliver to a particular point, position, condition, or direction: to send a punch to the jaw; The punch sent the fighter reeling. 1
  • verb with object sends to emit, discharge, or utter (usually followed by off, out, or through): The lion sent a roar through the jungle. 1
  • verb with object sends to cause to occur or befall: The people beseeched Heaven to send peace to their war-torn village. 1
  • verb with object sends Electricity. to transmit (a signal). to transmit (an electromagnetic wave or the like) in the form of pulses. 1
  • verb with object sends Slang. to delight or excite: Frank Sinatra's records used to send her. 1
  • verb without object sends to heave in a swell. 1
  • verb without object sends to lurch forward from the motion of a heavy sea. 1
  • idioms sends send packing, to dismiss curtly; send away in disgrace: The cashier was stealing, so we sent him packing. 1
  • idioms sends send round, to circulate or dispatch widely: Word was sent round about his illness. 1
  • noun sends the heaving motion of a vessel. 1
  • noun sends the forward impulse imparted by the motion of a sea against a vessel. 1
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