send sb down
(PRISON) UK (US send sb up) informal — phrasal verb with send /send/ verb [T] (sent, sent)Definition
› to send someone to prison: He was sent down for armed robbery. She was sent down for three years.Putting people in prison
(Definition of send sb down (PRISON) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- at His/Her Majesty's pleasure idiom
- bang sb up phrasal verb
- behind bars idiom
- captivity noun
- commit verb (SEND)
- confine verb
- gaol noun, verb
- hold verb (KEEP)
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- stretch noun (TIME)
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