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 To test this theory, the Enterprise sends a probe toward the white hole. — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026 Continue reading … FASHION STATEMENT — Sophie Cunningham's pregame shirt sends a clear message to her haters. — FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2026 Washington should push Riyadh to negotiate before its conflict with the Houthis escalates further and sends the price of energy even higher—or threatens the stability of Saudi Arabia itself. — Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2026 The same administrative need exists whether a business operates a storefront or sends invoices after completing work. — Karen Koehler, Sacbee.com, 22 Sep. 2026 Among the most destructive munitions in Western military arsenals, an MK-84 explosion sends metal fragments in every direction for thousands of feet, can rip through metal and thick concrete, and often creates large craters in the earth. — Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2026 Cregger’s update follows a medical courier (played by Austin Abrams) who is in the middle of making a delivery to Raccoon City General Hospital when a zombie outbreak sends him into a fight for survival. — Kirsten Chuba, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026 Constantly checking in when you’re supposed to be on vacation sends an entirely wrong message to your team. — Jason Richmond, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026 So, if someone sends you money while that account is frozen, the payment may still be deposited, depending on the restrictions the bank has placed on the account. — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sends

Verb

This handy gadget picks up your Bluetooth signal and transmits audio to up to two Bluetooth devices.

— Carin Ryan, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2026
The sender entangles its light field with the hologram’s light field and transmits the resulting signal.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of transmits

Verb

Thornock said Shasta Community Health has patients who travel more than an hour to get care and provides a program that transports them to health facilities.

— Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026
Saudi Arabia shut its East-West pipeline, a highly strategic network that transports crude oil from the kingdom’s eastern coast to the port of Yanbu on the Red Sea, following the damage caused by a drone attack.

— Anniek Bao,Sam Meredith, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of transports

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The toolkit has quietly powered World ID since April and now ships publicly under an MIT license after roughly two years of development and an independent audit by Least Authority.

— Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2026
Everyone who ships to the Half-Way House still must declare their items at a customs office about 100 feet away.

— Rachel Siegel, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of ships

Verb

Even though the department no longer dispatches officers to the scenes of minor accidents, LAPD statistics show that enforcement the department’s 308-member traffic bureau has gone up.

— Hailey Wang, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
The officer immediately dispatches that shots had been fired.

— Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of dispatches

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Within predetermined restrictions, the system transfers money on your behalf rather than requiring you to open a banking app when a bill is due.

— Antoine Sallis, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026
To store a qubit's state, the qubit transfers the information to a resonator, a container that traps a wave, where it's held as either zero or one microwave photon bouncing back and forth until the qubit takes it back.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 23 Sep. 2026