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■ verb ( past and past participle sent )
1》 cause to go or be taken or delivered to a particular destination.
↘( ~ someone to ) arrange for someone to attend (an institution).
2》 cause to move sharply or quickly; propel.
3》 cause to be in a specified state: it nearly sent me crazy.
4》 informal cause to feel ecstasy or elation.
Phrases
~ someone to Coventry chiefly Brit. refuse to associate with or speak to someone. [perh. from the unpopularity of royalist soldiers or prisoners quartered in Coventry (sympathetic to parliament) during the English Civil War.]
~ word ~ a message.
Phrasal verbs
~ someone down Brit.
1》 expel a student from a university.
2》 informal sentence someone to imprisonment.
~ for
1》 order or instruct (someone) to come to one; summon.
2》 order by post.
~ someone off (of a soccer or rugby referee) order a player to leave the field and take no further part in the game.
~ someone up US sentence someone to imprisonment.
~ someone/thing up informal, chiefly Brit. ridicule someone or something by exaggerated imitation.
Derivatives
~able adjective
~er noun
Origin
OE ~an , of Gmc origin.
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■ noun & verb variant spelling of scend .