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  1. transitive verb To cause to be conveyed by an intermediary to a destination: send goods by plane.
  2. transitive verb To dispatch, as by a communications medium: send a message by radio.
  3. transitive verb To direct to go on a mission: sent troops into the Middle East.

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  • So he makes out a list of the articles that he wishes to send, and marks the quantities of each that he will require, and gives the list to the agent. —  Rollo in London
  • I think it very likely he may have no boat to send, and He gave me a mighty thump on the back Good boy! —  Yorke The Adventurer
  • If North Carolina is any worse, in Heaven's name send no more money to distant heathen_, but attend to those at home GENERAL WILLIAM H. LYTLE Of whom our city has cause to be justly proud, has won for himself a name, engraven on the scroll of honor, as one of our country's heroes. —  Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive
  • And it reveals to us at once how grave things looked to His eyes, and how much depended on His followers having a clear understanding of how things would work out, that our Lord Jesus does do just this thing,--send a direct revelation that would meet just such a need More Alike than Different It is most striking that the conditions of the Church then and to-day are so much alike. —  Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation
  • You fell so heavily that perhaps a small bone might be broken Yes--send--send," returned the invalid, irritably. —  Doctor Luttrell's First Patient
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English senden, from Old English sendan; see sent- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English senden (preterit sende, sente, past participle send, sent), from Anglo-Saxon sendan (preterit sende, past participle sended) = Old Saxon sendian = OFries. senda, sanda, seinda = Middle Dutch senden, Dutch zenden = Middle Low German senden = Old High German santan, sentan, Middle High German senden, senten, German senden = Icelandic senda = Swedish sända = Danish sende = Gothic (Moesogothic) sandjan, send, literally ‘make to go’ (associated with the noun, Anglo-Saxon sand, etc., a sending, message, embassy: see sand), causal of Anglo-Saxon as if *sindan = Goth, *sinthan (preterit santh), go, travel, = Old High German sinnan (for *sindan), Middle High German sinnen, go, go forth, German sinnen (preterit sann), go over in the mind, review, reflect upon (cf. Latin sentire, feel, perceive: see scent, sentient, sense); hence Gothic (Moesogothic) sinth, a time, = Anglo-Saxon sīth (for *sinth), Middle English sithe, a journey, time: see sithe. Cf. OLith. suntu, I send.
  2. from Middle English send, a variant, conformed to the verb, of sand, sond: see sand. In modern use directly from send, v.
 

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