Verb

send back (third-person singular simple present sends back, present participle sending back, simple past and past participle sent back)Category:English lemmas#SENDBACKCategory:English verbs#SENDBACKCategory:English phrasal verbs#SENDBACKCategory:English phrasal verbs formed with %22back%22#SENDBACKCategory:English multiword terms#SENDBACKCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SENDBACKCategory:Pages with entries#SEND%20BACKCategory:Pages with 1 entry#SEND%20BACK

1. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SENDBACK) To return (something) to its origin.

   Synonym: return

   I sent the video back to the store, as it was damaged.Category:English terms with usage examples#SENDBACK

   • 2019 December 3, HYUNG-JIN KIM, “Half-North Korean, half-Chinese kids struggle in South Korea”, in AP News‎, sourced from UIJEONGBU, South Korea (AP), archived from the original on 09 October 2023‎:

     The 20-year-old speaks only a little Korean and has no South Korean friends. She has yet to travel alone beyond Seoul and often spends time chatting online with her friends back in China.
     Her mother fled their home in Dunhua city in northeastern China in early 2017 after seeing a fellow North Korean woman in their village being arrested and sent back to North Korea.

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2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SENDBACK, figurative) To remind (someone) of a previous time in the past.

   That song sends me back to the 1970s.Category:English terms with usage examples#SENDBACK

Anagrams

• back ends, back-ends, backends