v. 25B6; verb
they sent a message to HQ : DISPATCH, post, mail, address, consign, direct, forward; transmit, convey, communicate; telephone, phone, broadcast, radio, fax, e-mail; dated telegraph, wire, cable.
we sent for a doctor : CALL, summon, contact; ask for, request, order.
the pump sent out a jet of petrol : PROPEL, project, eject, deliver, discharge, spout, fire, shoot, release; throw, let fly; informal chuck.
the barrels send off nasty fumes : EMIT, give off, discharge, exude, send out, release, leak.
it's enough to send one mad : MAKE, drive, turn.
(informal) it's the music that sends us : EXCITE, stimulate, move, rouse, stir, thrill, electrify, intoxicate, enrapture, enthral, grip; charm, delight; informal blow away, give someone a kick.
receive.
25A0; send someone down
(Brit.) she was sent down from Cambridge : EXPEL, exclude; Brit. rusticate.
(informal) he was sent down for life : SEND TO PRISON, imprison, jail, incarcerate, lock up, confine, detain, intern; informal put away; Brit. informal bang up.
25A0; send someone off (Sport) ORDER OFF, dismiss; show someone the red card; informal red-card, send for an early bath, sin-bin.
25A0; send someone/something up (informal) SATIRIZE, ridicule, make fun of, parody, lampoon, mock, caricature, imitate, ape; informal take off, spoof, take the mickey out of.