Synonyms of send in English:

send

See definition of send

verb

1‘she said she'd send me a letter’

SYNONYMS

dispatch, post, mail, put in the mail, put in the post, address, get off, convey, consign, direct, forward, redirect, send on, remit, airmail

ANTONYMS

receive

2‘they sent a message to headquarters’

SYNONYMS

transmit, convey, communicate

telephone, phone, broadcast, televise, telecast, radio, fax, email, upload, ISDN, FTP

dated telegraph, wire, cable

ANTONYMS

receive

3‘we have sent for a doctor’

SYNONYMS

call, call for, call in, summon, ask to come, request, request the attendance of, request the presence of, order, contact, fetch

4‘I squeezed the plastic bottle and sent a jet of petrol out of it’

SYNONYMS

propel, project, send forth, eject, deliver, discharge, spout, fire, shoot, blast, catapult, launch, release, force, push, impel, ram

throw, fling, toss, lob, hurl, shy, cast, let fly

informal chuck, sling, bung

5‘the empty barrels send off evil-smelling fumes’

SYNONYMS

emit, give off, discharge, exude, send out, send forth, eject, release, leak

6‘it's enough to send one mad’

SYNONYMS

make, drive, cause to be, cause to become

7‘it's the spectacle and music that send us, not the words’

SYNONYMS

excite, stimulate, move, rouse, stir, thrill, electrify, intoxicate, enrapture, enthral, grip, ravish, charm, delight, give pleasure to, titillate

turn on, blow away, give someone a buzz, give someone a kick, stoke

Phrases

send someone down

1‘she was sent down from Cambridge’

SYNONYMS

expel, exclude

rusticate

ANTONYMS

admit, readmit

2‘he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life’

SYNONYMS

send to prison, sentence to imprisonment, imprison, jail, incarcerate, lock up, confine, detain, intern, immure

informal

put away

British informal

bang up

ANTONYMS

release, let off

send someone off

‘Miller was sent off for a second bookable offence’

SYNONYMS

order off, tell to leave the field, dismiss

show someone the red card

informal

red-card, send for an early bath, give someone their marching orders, sin-bin

send someone packing

‘they decided they'd had enough of him, and sent him packing’

SYNONYMS

expel, send away, eject, turn out, throw out, force out, oust, evict, put out, get rid of

dismiss, discharge

chuck out, kick out, boot out, defenestrate, show the door to, give someone their marching orders, throw someone out on their ear, sack, fire, give someone the boot, axe

British

give someone the push, give someone the elbow, give someone the big E, bin off, turf out

North American

give someone the air, give someone the bum's rush

send someone to Coventry

‘all three have been sent to Coventry for not treading the party line’

SYNONYMS

ostracize, exclude, shun, spurn, cold-shoulder, give someone the cold shoulder, reject, repudiate, boycott, blackball, blacklist, cast off, cast out, shut out, avoid, ignore, snub, cut dead, keep at arm's length, leave out in the cold, bar, ban, debar, banish, exile, expel

North American

disfellowship

informal

freeze out, hand someone the frozen mitt

informal

blank

dated

cut

send someone/something up

‘we used to send him up something rotten’

SYNONYMS

satirize, ridicule, make fun of, parody, lampoon, mock, caricature, imitate, ape