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send back

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send someone or something back
to cause someone or something to return. He came to apologize, but I sent him back. Send back these goods. They are defective.
See also: back, send

send back somebody/something also send somebody/something back
to return someone or something to the place they came from A year after he got out of prison, he was sent back for dealing in drugs. Some computer ads allow users to click on a button and send an e-mail back to the advertiser. If that steak isn't cooked enough, you should send it back.
See also: back, send


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solemnly pledges herself to send back the complete series of her Extracts to Mr.
Well, sir, now you mention it, I think the drain does sometimes send back a smell; there may be something wrong, sir.
My companion and I being undeceived by this terrible relation, thought it would be the highest imprudence to expose ourselves both together to a death almost certain and unprofitable, and agreed that I should go with our Abyssin and a Portuguese to observe the country; that if I should prove so happy as to escape being killed by the inhabitants, and to discover a way, I should either return, or send back the Abyssin or Portuguese.
 
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