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Send off   /sɛnd ɔf/   Listen
Send off

verb
1.
Send away towards a designated goal.  Synonyms: despatch, dispatch.
2.
Throw, send, or cast forward.  Synonym: project.
3.
Transfer.  Synonyms: get off, send.






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"Send off" Quotes from Famous Books



... a murmur, as it is not unusual with the Omawhaws to send off one of their wives, on some occasions, while they remain with ...
— Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3) • James Athearn Jones

... that the people on shore will send off to us," observed the mate; "it's very certain we cannot get to them until the boats ...
— The Two Supercargoes - Adventures in Savage Africa • W.H.G. Kingston

... just about to send off the search party, my dear Stafford," he said. "Is it possible that you have just come down that hill? Good heavens! What follies are committed in thy name, O Sport! And of course there are no fish—there never are! ...
— At Love's Cost • Charles Garvice

... no such orders! Wait only three hours; I will send off a messenger express to squire Falkland, and I am sure he will satisfy you as to any harm that can come to you, without its being necessary to take the poor child ...
— Caleb Williams - Things As They Are • William Godwin

... were confined, could only acquire a greater solidity, and change a soft body into a hard and nearly osseous mass. This likewise accounts for the increase of the medulla oblongata, which being loaded with more juices than it could send off, swelled in the same manner as the branches of trees, which will grow of a monstrous size, when the sap that runs into them is stopt in its progress. The medulla oblongata not growing so hard as the spinalis, was doubtless owing ...
— An Essay on the Shaking Palsy • James Parkinson


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