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 Knowing, an inbox magazine built for Black readers, sends its first issue Saturday. — Jasmine Browley, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026 And, when Malika’s dentist beau sends her flowers, Khloé opines (over FaceTime, naturally) that the bouquet is too small and therefore cheap. — Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026 Hutton said Calumet College regularly sends representatives to the school to monitor it, including its governance system and academic programs. — Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026 Despite Bret’s passionate insistence that his classmate is a serial killer, Croft tells him Robert is a good kid from a good family and sends him back to class. — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026 Her troubled and impoverished family sends her to another family’s farm so the girl’s overwhelmed mother can give birth to yet another child. — Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2026 By origin, Asia sends about $245 billion, driven almost entirely by Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan. — William Jones, Ascend Agency, 27 Aug. 2026 This means that the landlord does not charge each resident for their individual utility usage but sends them statements based on a formula applied to the building’s total usage. — Audrey McGlinchy, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026 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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sends

Verb

Airport malaria is a very rare form of the disease’s transmission and occurs when a mosquito survives a flight from a malaria-endemic country and transmits the disease at or near the airport.

— Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026
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

Definition of transmits

Verb

The Sioux Falls regional water reclamation facility, which transports and treats wastewater from the city and surrounding communities is receiving $81 million in the budget.

— Gabriel Brito, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 28 Aug. 2026
And soon Scotty’s got a new task, too, after A’Sha transports him to a Jeffries tube to get the pod ready.

— Keith Phipps, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of transports

Verb

Porky Pig and Daffy Duck aren’t celebrities but second-class citizens forced to order their shoddy goods from Acme, a monopoly that ships everything in oddly familiar blue and brown boxes.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
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

Definition of ships

Verb

That provision transfers a sibling's equity upon their death to their surviving siblings rather than their own children, incentivizing the siblings to sell during their lifetime, Janie Buss told ESPN at the time.

— Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026
His chance at glory now past, a father transfers wrestling dreams to his 11-year-old daughter, Jenny.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2026