Send

/sɛnd/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive, ditransitive) To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive, ditransitive) To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone).
2. (transitive, slang) To get one going; move to excitement or rapture; to delight or thrill.
3. (transitive, Internet slang) To amuse greatly or otherwise stun by absurdity.
4. (transitive) To bring to a certain condition, to drive.
5. (intransitive, usually with for) To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message or do an errand.
6. (transitive, sometimes followed by a dependent proposition) To cause to be or to happen; to bring; bring about.
7. (nautical, intransitive) To pitch.
8. (climbing, transitive) To climb a route without falling.

Example Sentences

Every day at two o'clock, he sends his secretary out to buy him a coffee.

She sends me a letter every month.

Some hooligan sent a brick flying through the window, and the bang sent us running out of the building.

Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.

I don't know what it is, but this music really sends me.

The train had an excellent whistle which sent me, just as Sinatra sends the bobby-sockers.

Darling you send me / I know you send me

Baby you send me.

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Antonyms for send

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