to send away
43
3.0
- phrasal verb
- /sɛnd əˈweɪ/
:
despedir
- The manager decided to send away the employee who repeatedly arrived late.
- want to send away
- send away children
- send away home
Get a re education by the peasants, send them away to the countryside.
- Get a re education by the peasants, send them away to the countryside.
- So in retaliation, his people sent her away with her six daughters.
- The worst is when they would send you away from your parents.
- They make this ASMR stuff on the White House website of people getting chained and shackled and put on planes and sent away.
- Basically Olivia has to go to Gallant because they kind of sent her away and we realized that the house is full of secrets.
- All he could do is send us away, please.
- She said most guys I send away right away.
- I mean, well, a lot of my a lot of my good customers got sent away and some good men out there.
Examples
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Are you sending me away?
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You tried to send her away from me, Willie.
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More proof you were right to send me away.
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Have I ever sent you away yet?
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Well, we could send her away perhaps to America.
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And yet you sent me away.
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Would they send him away?
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I was seven years old when I was sent away from home, banished, taken away.
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They're going to send her away tonight.
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I sent him away.
Synonyms
∞
2.8
To officially make someone leave their job
∞
3.1
To leave out a sound or part of a word
852
3.8
To stop employing someone so they lose their job
512
3.0
Force someone to leave a place or group
236
3.0
To force someone to leave a place, job, or group
194
5.0
Force someone to leave a place, such as a school or country, often by official order
90
5.5
To make someone stop working for a company
71
3.4
To force a person, animal, or feeling to go away
70
3.3
To remove someone from their job
70
3.8
Force someone or something to leave a place
46
4.4
To make someone leave a job by pressure or threats
37
3.5
To make someone leave their job
33
7.7
To fire someone from their job in informal speech
32
4.2
Force someone to leave a place
15
5.8
Force someone to leave a job or organization suddenly
12
7.4
To stop someone from working at their job, usually because of bad work or behavior
8
6.5
To make someone leave quickly to show they are not wanted
4
7.9
Make someone leave quickly and forcefully
2
4.1
Formally tell an employee that their job will end
1
8.2
Force someone to leave a place or job
1
5.2
To make someone leave their job, often as punishment or during job cuts
To stop employing someone, often suddenly as punishment
To tell someone they must leave their job
To suddenly end someone's job or a relationship, often without warning
Antonyms
How Severe
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to dispatch or mail something to a particular destination' is directly derivable from 'send' (to cause to go) plus the particle 'away' (movement to another location). This verb + particle composition is a common, compositional pattern in English and cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Send away comes from the simple image of ordering someone to leave a room or place. People would say 'send him away' and point to the door, so it now means 'to dismiss' or make someone leave.