What are some opposite words for send?

Antonyms for send
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  1. sendverb

    Synonyms:
    emit, broadcast, mail

English Synonyms and Antonyms3.5 / 2 votes

  1. send

    To send is to cause to go or pass from one place to another, and always in fact or thought away from the agent or agency that controls the act. Send in its most common use involves personal agency without personal presence; according to the adage, "If you want your business done, go; if not, send;" one sends a letter or a bullet, a messenger or a message. In all the derived uses this same idea controls; if one sends a ball into his own heart, the action is away from the directing hand, and he is viewed as the passive recipient of his own act; it is with an approach to personification that we speak of the bow sending the arrow, or the gun the shot. To despatch is to send hastily or very promptly, ordinarily with a destination in view; to dismiss is to send away from oneself without reference to a destination; as, to dismiss a clerk, an application, or an annoying subject. To discharge is to send away so as to relieve a person or thing of a load; we discharge a gun or discharge the contents; as applied to persons, discharge is a harsher term than dismiss. To emit is to send forth from within, with no reference to a destination; as, the sun emits light and heat. Transmit, from the Latin, is a dignified term, often less vigorous than the Saxon send, but preferable at times in literary or scientific use; as, to transmit the crown, or the feud, from generation to generation; to transmit a charge of electricity. Transmit fixes the attention more on the intervening agency, as send does upon the points of departure and destination.

    Antonyms:
    bring, carry, convey, get, give, hand, hold, keep, receive, retain

    Synonyms:
    cast, dart, delegate, depute, despatch, discharge, dismiss, drive, emit, fling, forward, hurl, impel, lance, launch, project, propel, sling, throw, transmit

    Preposition:
    To send from the hand to or toward (rarely at) a mark; send to a friend by a messenger or by mail; send a person into banishment; send a shell among the enemy.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. send

    Antonyms:
    detain, withhold, arrest, withdraw, deny, recal

    Synonyms:
    despatch, transmit, impel, cast, bestow, grant

  2. send

    Synonyms:
    relegate, remand, transfer

Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 1 vote

  1. send, directverb

    cause to go somewhere

    "The explosion sent the car flying in the air"; "She sent her children to camp"; "He directed all his energies into his dissertation"

    Synonyms:
    ship, beam, get off, place, mail, send off, commit, target, lead, station, maneuver, take, post, point, channelize, aim, channelise, take aim, train, head, steer, manoeuver, transport, address, manoeuvre, direct, engineer, organize, charge, organise, calculate, broadcast, institutionalise, send out, conduct, air, institutionalize, orchestrate, mastermind, guide, transmit

  2. send, send outverb

    to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place

    "He had sent the dispatches downtown to the proper people and had slept"

    Synonyms:
    institutionalize, beam, send off, post, institutionalise, transport, place, mail, station, broadcast, get off, air, send out, direct, ship, charge, transmit, commit

  3. mail, post, sendverb

    cause to be directed or transmitted to another place

    "send me your latest results"; "I'll mail you the paper when it's written"

    Synonyms:
    institutionalize, brand, put up, send off, post, institutionalise, transport, place, mail, station, broadcast, get off, beam, air, send out, direct, ship, charge, stake, transmit, commit, carry

  4. transport, send, shipverb

    transport commercially

    Synonyms:
    ravish, institutionalize, beam, send off, channel, post, institutionalise, transport, enthrall, place, mail, enchant, station, broadcast, get off, embark, air, send out, direct, channelize, ship, charge, transmit, commit, carry, channelise, transfer, delight, enrapture, enthral

  5. station, post, send, placeverb

    assign to a station

    Synonyms:
    stake, ship, beam, get off, rank, put, mail, localize, range, send off, commit, station, put up, post, place, point, come in, brand, position, grade, target, lay, institutionalise, carry, locate, transport, aim, direct, identify, charge, broadcast, send out, invest, air, rate, institutionalize, come out, set, order, site, pose, localise, transmit

  6. send, get off, send offverb

    transfer

    "The spy sent the classified information off to Russia"

    Synonyms:
    ship, beam, dispatch, get off, place, trip, mail, send off, commit, station, dismount, get down, post, despatch, get out, institutionalise, transport, direct, trip out, turn on, charge, escape, broadcast, send out, hop out, air, institutionalize, get by, project, light, unhorse, get away, transmit

  7. commit, institutionalize, institutionalise, send, chargeverb

    cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution

    "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"

    Synonyms:
    ship, beam, dedicate, get off, place, put, mail, consign, excite, perpetrate, intrust, send off, commit, blame, station, agitate, appoint, post, bear down, load, point, consecrate, rouse, shoot down, buck, commove, pull, accuse, institutionalise, lodge, give, transport, bill, shoot, devote, direct, level, file, turn on, charge, practice, broadcast, charge up, send out, invest, confide, air, institutionalize, entrust, trust, saddle, tear, burden, transmit

  8. air, send, broadcast, beam, transmitverb

    broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television

    "We cannot air this X-rated song"

    Synonyms:
    convey, circulate, air out, beam, transfer, get off, place, spread, impart, mail, radiate, send off, commit, station, bare, post, communicate, glow, publicise, channelize, ship, channelise, ventilate, disperse, circularize, institutionalise, channel, carry, shine, transport, disseminate, pass around, direct, charge, publicize, diffuse, broadcast, distribute, propagate, send out, conduct, vent, air, institutionalize, circularise, aerate, transmit

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  1. sendverb

    Synonyms:
    dispatch, commission, delegate, transmit, forward

How to use send in a sentence?

  1. Instructor Amy Roat:

    Very often you send papers home and they disappear into the abyss of someone's backpack, never to be seen again.

  2. Seller Nick Fisher:

    But as they say, ‘ The customer is always right. ’ I ’ll still send them out. Why disappoint the customer, even if they are a bit warped ?

  3. Jerry Guilbert:

    Before we send humans in to clear a building or check that critical infrastructure site for IED contamination, one of things that we'll do is bring these specially-trained mine detecting dogs up to sniff the perimeter, determine if there are explosives in that building and based on where the dogs may be indicating, find out where in the building perhaps do we think those explosive hazards are.

  4. Mark Meuser:

    By ruling that Yvette Felarca did not demonstrate good faith in filing the restraining order, the court recognized the frivolous nature of Felarca’s actions, the award of attorney fees should send a strong signal that she cannot abuse the court system to silence speech.

  5. Ahmed Asseri:

    There is no factory, we attacked a military camp in Hajjah where they train mercenaries to send them to kill our soldiers.

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