Definition of Send down

1. Verb. Suspend temporarily from college or university, in England.

Exact synonyms: Rusticate
Generic synonyms: Debar, Suspend
Derivative terms: Rustication

Definition of Send down

1. Verb. (UK Irish) To expel an undergraduate from university. ¹

2. Verb. (cricket) To bowl. ¹

3. Verb. (slang) To commit someone to a prison term. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Send Down

senatours
senatusconsult
senatusconsults
sence
send
send-off
send-offs
send-up
send-ups
sendQ
send a message
send around
send away
send away for
send back
send down (current term)
send for
send forth
send her down Hughie
send in
send off
send offs
send on
send out
send out for
send packing
send shivers down someone's spine
send somebody packing
send to Coventry
send to the glue factory

Literary usage of Send down

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Abridged Academy Song-book: For Use in Schools and Colleges by Charles Herbert Levermore (1918)
"send down Thy Spir • it free, Till wil - der - ness and town 1. send down Thy truth, О God! Too long the shad - ows frown; T т=Г= ""~ ^ Too long the dark ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"Should Lord Byron discharge the valet in question, and the man become helpless and hungry out of place, let him send down a subscription paper to Mr Jeffrey ..."

3. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones (1866)
"... danger appal: and be assured that the just God, who crowned their efforts with success, will, in His own good time, send down His blessings upon yours. ..."

4. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones (1866)
"... danger appal: and be assured that the just God, who crowned their efforts with success, will, in His own good time, send down His blessings upon yours. ..."

5. Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion, and Other Various by John Strype (1824)
"Sir Walter Ralegh to the lord treasurer ; to send down a commission for examination and inquiry concerning the robbing of the carack, Sept. 17, 1592. ..."

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