verb
- Cause to go somewhere.
- usage: "The explosion sent the car flying in the air"; "She sent her children to camp"; "He directed all his energies into his dissertation"
- synonyms: direct
- To cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place.
- usage: "He had sent the dispatches downtown to the proper people and had slept"
- synonyms: send out
- Cause to be directed or transmitted to another place.
- usage: "send me your latest results"; "I'll mail you the paper when it's written"
- Transport commercially.
- Assign to a station.
- Transfer.
- usage: "The spy sent the classified information off to Russia"
- Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
- usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
- synonyms: commit, institutionalize, institutionalise, charge
- Broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television.
- usage: "We cannot air this X-rated song"
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