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send down
verb
- to expel from a university, esp permanently
- informal.to send to prison
Idioms and Phrases
Suspend or dismiss from a university, principally a British one. For example, He's done very poorly ever since he was sent down from Oxford . [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
When you wring out this more powerful sponge, it sends down heavier rains than before.
Canada’s star was David Winckworth, who made 12 with the bat before sending down a few round-arm thunderbolts of his own, taking four wickets as the Americans were dismissed for 64.
We had a cunning little dipper we could send down into the pan on a length of picture wire.
This is done using a specific type of satellite called an altimeter, which sends down radar pulses to very precisely measure the height of the ice surface.
Since 1938 it has provided a convenient route for a water main, still maintained by Scottish Water, who regularly send down inspectors.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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