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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
put away
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
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
give someone the push, give someone the elbow, give someone the big E, bin off, turf out
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
disfellowship
freeze out, hand someone the frozen mitt
blank
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
take off, spoof, take the mickey out of
monkey
take the piss out of
