[send] 
verb, sent, send⋅ing.| 1. | to cause, permit, or enable to go: to send a messenger; They sent their son to college. |
| 2. | to cause to be conveyed or transmitted to a destination: to send a letter. |
| 3. | to order, direct, compel, or force to go: The president sent troops to Asia. |
| 4. | to direct, propel, or deliver to a particular point, position, condition, or direction: to send a punch to the jaw; The punch sent the fighter reeling. |
| 5. | to emit, discharge, or utter (usually fol. by off, out, or through): The lion sent a roar through the jungle. |
| 6. | to cause to occur or befall: The people beseeched Heaven to send peace to their war-torn village. |
| 7. | Electricity.
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| 8. | Slang. to delight or excite: Frank Sinatra's records used to send her. |
| 9. | to dispatch a messenger, agent, message, etc. |
| 10. | Electricity. to transmit a signal: The ship's radio sends on a special band of frequencies. |
| 11. | send down, British. to expel, esp. from Oxford or Cambridge. |
| 12. | send for, to request the coming or delivery of; summon: If her temperature goes up, send for the doctor. |
| 13. | send forth,
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| 14. | send in, to cause to be dispatched or delivered to a destination: Send in your contest entries to this station. |
| 15. | send off, to cause to depart or to be conveyed from oneself; dispatch; dismiss: His teacher sent him off to the principal's office. |
| 16. | send out,
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| 17. | send up,
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| 18. | send packing, to dismiss curtly; send away in disgrace: The cashier was stealing, so we sent him packing. |
| 19. | send round, to circulate or dispatch widely: Word was sent round about his illness. |
