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Send for   /sɛnd fɔr/   Listen
verb
Send  v. i.  (past & past part. sent; pres. part. sending)  
1.
To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand. "See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head?"
2.
(Naut.) To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts.
To send for, to request or require by message to come or be brought.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... blotted, that we should have been puzzled to read it, had it even been in English. I therefore desired the priests to translate it into Latin, which they promised to do, and took the paper with them. They also told me, that the governor meant to send for some Englishmen who lived at Guatimala, if I would continue three days longer in the road; to which I answered, that he might take his own time. Two days after, on our boat going ashore as usual, the governor ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume X • Robert Kerr

... in general the men themselves who spoil them; they are too patient, too conceding, too obliging. But in my house it shall be different. I do not intend to spoil my wife. On the contrary, she shall learn to show herself patient, devoted, and attentive to me; and for this purpose I intend to send for my dear sister. She must not expect that I shall move from the spot for her sake; ...
— Strife and Peace • Fredrika Bremer

... I could send for the commissary of police if I chose, and give you up as a man who has hidden himself on my premises, but I would rather let you go; I am a fiend, I ...
— Melmoth Reconciled • Honore de Balzac

... Grandidier; the apparent struggle she had to conceal her distress, the compassion and sympathy in her countenance struck me. I easily perceived she gave up hope, and, I began to suspect, not from her own judgment alone; she advised me to send away my children to a friend's house, and to send for a person who was capable of assisting me, it being no longer proper for me to be alone. Thus far I had not allowed any person to do the least thing about him but myself, nor stirred from his bedside, except for ...
— The Power of Faith - Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham. • Isabella Graham

... pleasure, and readily gave the required promise, adding, on behalf of his tribe, that the hatchet which was buried should never again be dug up against the whites. An extra chamber and all the spare ammunition was given to him, and a further supply promised when he chose to send for it; instructions were also given to him in the use of the weapon, then a solemn farewell was exchanged, and the party of whites ...
— On the Pampas • G. A. Henty


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