send
/send/ verb [T] (past tense and past participle sent)Definition
SOMETHING › to arrange for something to go or be taken somewhere, especially by post: [+ two objects] I sent him a letter last week. Do you think we should send flowers?
SOMEONE › to make someone go somewhere: I sent him into the house to fetch some glasses.
send sb to sleep › to cause someone to start sleeping: Reading usually sends me to sleep. → See also drive/send sb round the bend
(Definition of send verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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