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send back

send back verb: to return (something) to its origin.

Verb

send back (third-person singular simple present sends back, present participle sending back, simple past and past participle sent back)

  1. (transitive) To return (something) to its origin.
    • I sent the video back to the store, as it was damaged.
    • 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...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 Oct 2023
    Synonyms:
    return
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To remind (someone) of a previous time in the past.
    • That song sends me back to the 1970s.

send back meaning in Malayalam, Kannada and Persian

send back in Malayalam

to return something to its origin
തിരിച്ചയക്കുക tiriccayakkuka

send back in Kannada

ಪಿಂತಟ್ಟು, ಹಿಂದಟ್ಟು

send back in Persian

to return something to its origin
برگرداندن bargardândan

Synonyms of send back

Forms of send back

third-person singular presentsends back
present participlesending back
past participlesent back
pastsent back

Questions about send back

What does send back mean?
Send back means to return (something) to its origin.
What is send back in Malayalam?
Send back in Malayalam is തിരിച്ചയക്കുക (tiriccayakkuka). See Send back meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is send back?
Send back is a verb.
What is the past tense of send back?
The past tense of send back is sent back.

Words near send back in the dictionary

  1. send a shiver down someone's spine
  2. send about one's business
  3. send around
  4. send away
  5. send away for
  6. send back
  7. send below
  8. send bush
  9. send down
  10. send down for
  11. send for

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Adapted from Wiktionary: send back (page history and authors); send back (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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