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For the verb: "to send"

Simple Past: sent
Past Participle: sent
Multiple Entries:
  send    scend  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
send1
verb (past and past part. sent)
  • 1 cause to go or be taken or delivered to a particular destination.

    ■ (send 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
send 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.]
send word send a message.
– phrasal verbs
send someone down Brit.
  • 1 expel a student from a university.
  • 2 informal sentence someone to imprisonment.
send for
  • 1 order or instruct (someone) to come to one; summon.
  • 2 order by post.
send someone off (of a soccer or rugby referee) order a player to leave the field and take no further part in the game.
send someone up US sentence someone to imprisonment.
send someone/thing up informal, chiefly Brit. ridicule someone or something by exaggerated imitation.
– derivatives
sendable adjective,
sender noun.
– origin OE sendan, of Gmc origin.



Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
send2
noun & verb variant spelling of scend.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
scend /sɛnd/ (also send) archaic
noun the push or surge created by a wave.

■ a pitching or surging movement in a boat.

verb (of a vessel) pitch or surge up in a heavy sea.
– origin C15: alt. of send1 or descend.
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