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 result sends the National League Wild Card series to a winner-take-all third game at a time to be announced Thursday. — Chad Bishop, AJC.com, 1 Oct. 2026 Meanwhile, Send Last Location automatically sends your iPhone's location to Apple when its battery reaches a critically low level. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2026 The bedroom selfie Flora secretly sends her the morning after is the final straw impelling Carla to file for divorce. — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2026 Lidar sends laser pulses toward a target and measures the light that returns. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026 Once activated, the malware sends a command directing the ATM to dispense cash without debiting a customer’s account. — Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2026 The time-traveling Nebula is captured by this Thanos, who sends her past self to the future as a decoy. — Michael McDonough, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Sep. 2026 Launching here sends a signal that ambitious plans for circularity must be grounded in reality. — Bella Webb, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2026 China’s People’s Liberation Army sends fighter jets and ships toward the island almost daily. — ABC News, 29 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

There are a number of boats offering Bay cruises, but one of them also transports passengers on a trip back in time.

— John Ramos, CBS News, 6 Oct. 2026
In bursts of bright stanzas, Chen Chen transports us through the landscape of his childhood into his early twenties.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of transports

Verb

The coffee shop ships New York bagels from a national distributor two to three times a week so New Yorkers can get a taste of home.

— Sheeka Sanahori, Bon Appetit Magazine, 5 Oct. 2026
Besides, Matic’s products don’t get FCC approval to begin with — instead, Matic ships them with an off-the-shelf Intel AX210 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chip that gets its own approval from the FCC.

— Sean Hollister, The Verge, 5 Oct. 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

Verb

Instead of striking the target with an explosive warhead, the laser transfers energy into the target’s surface.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2026
This project transfers a handwritten family recipe onto a ceramic pie plate using graphite paper and a glass paint marker.

— Jamie Cuccinelli, Martha Stewart, 27 Sep. 2026