send back en · VERB
Meanings
-
(transitive) To return (something) to its origin.
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 Korean woman in their village being arrested and sent back to North Korea.
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:I sent the video back to the store, as it was damaged.
-
(figuratively, transitive) To remind (someone) of a previous time in the past.
That song sends me back to the 1970s.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| sent back | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| sent back | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| sending back | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| sends back | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Synonyms
Translations (9)
pl odesłać (to return something to its origin) · it rispedire (to return something to its origin) · fi palauttaa (to return something to its origin) · fa برگرداندن (to return something to its origin) · hu visszaküld (to return something to its origin) · fi lähettää takaisin (to return something to its origin) · ml തിരിച്ചയക്കുക (to return something to its origin) · de zurückschicken (to return something to its origin) · pl odsyłać (to return something to its origin)