send down

present singular third person sends down · participle present sending down · participle past sent down · past sent down

1. transitiveTo cause something or someone to pass from a higher to a lower place.
2. ball gamesTo bowl.
3. slangtransitiveTo commit (someone) to a prison term.

   Eventually she was caught, and sent down for twelve years.

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   Crypto king or conman: is Sam Bankman-Fried about to be sent down for a century? [title]

   2023 September 25, Zoe Williams, “Crypto king or conman: is Sam Bankman-Fried about to be sent down for a century?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

4. USball gamesTo demote a player within the levels of professional baseball.

   After performing poorly for the first month of the season, he was sent down to the minor leagues.

5. IrelandUKdatedtransitiveusually Oxbridge slangTo suspend or expel (an undergraduate) from university.

   He was sent down from Oxford for theft.

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   You climbed the wall, for which you ought to be gated; and finally, you came in blotto, for which you ought to be sent down.

   1935, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

6. communismTo send a person to the countryside to become a peasant-farmer for re-education; to get in touch with the fundamental values of peasant-based communism (as opposed to urban worker-class proletariat-based communism).