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send away
Also, send off.
Dispatch someone or something, as in We send the children away to camp every summer , or I sent off that letter last week . The first term dates from the first half of the 1500s, the variant from the late 1700s.
Order an item, as in I sent away for those gloves last month but they haven't arrived yet . Also see send for , def. 2.
Example Sentences
“To send away a child from the womb of the mother is an assassination, because there is life. We must speak about these things clearly,” Francis said.
Please don’t send away your good, young players again.
Some of these cards require cardholders to send away their collateral items or car title.
The patients who haunt me nearly as much as those who have succumbed to the opioid crisis are the ones I send away, often in as much pain as when they first arrived.
Other times she would have to send away a particularly bothersome spirit with the threat of iron and salt, but those times were rare.
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