SENDS Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

sends

verb

present tense third-person singular of send

as in transmits

to cause to go or be taken from one place to another they promised to send the package in the morning

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Recent Examples of sends The home’s whole-house speaker system sends music clear out to the tennis court, front yard and pool. — David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 22 Aug. 2026 The ruling sends the case back to San Mateo County, where the district attorney’s office will have 60 days from the date the ruling was finalized to decide whether to retry the case, said San Mateo County District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe. — Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2026 The logic controller receives inputs from sensors or other devices, executes a control program and sends outputs to other equipment. — Steve Weisman, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026 However, the calculation changes if Apple sends you a mercenary spyware notification. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 21 Aug. 2026 The call ends abruptly, but the responder sends police officers to the woman’s location. — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 20 Aug. 2026 That’s because El Niño typically sends the jet stream — the cross-country river of air that storms flow through — south of its normal position and into the southern tier of the US. — Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026 Lumen tracks who sends takedown requests, who receives them, and what online URLs are targeted. — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2026 The aircraft are part of Colorado's aerial fire-detection program, which sends planes over the state looking for the heat signatures of new fires, particularly those sparked by lightning. — Brian Maass, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sends

Verb

While the car transmits every ripple in the road, its trick Multimatic dampers round off imperfections beautifully, so the chassis never feels discombobulated.

— Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 22 July 2026
His music gives me chills, transmits cosmic waves of light, wisdom, and divine emotions.

— Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2026

Definition of transmits

Verb

The most common type of vessel traveling through the strait was the product tanker, which typically transports refined petroleum products.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
The costumes, the vendors, the food — all of it transports you to another world in such a magical way.

— Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of transports

Verb

The result can take many forms—a product team that ships a working prototype before commissioning user research, or a strategy leader who presents a direction and asks which assumptions are wrong instead of asking which direction to take.

— Nataliya Andreychuk, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Hernández sells bunches of medicinal herbs — his most popular online item — and ships them all over the country.

— Delia Sauer, Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of ships

Verb

Instead, calls to the county’s Department of Mental Health help line, which dispatches the mobile response teams, increased by 31% during that same time period.

— Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 11 Aug. 2026
One night, a cockroach breaches his citadel, and Pratt swiftly dispatches it.

— Asim Ali, Time, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of dispatches

Verb

Researchers in Lithuania have increased tandem perovskite solar cell efficiency to more than 29 percent after modifying an ultra-thin molecular layer that transfers positive charge carriers within the device.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 14 Aug. 2026
This warmer water transfers vast quantities of heat into the atmosphere via clouds and heavy precipitation.

— Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026