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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

send forth en · VERB

Etymology

Reanalysis of earlier forthsend, from Middle English *forthsenden, from Old English forþsendan.

Meanings

  1. (archaic, literary, transitive) To emit; to produce; to let out
    • She shuddered and was silent, holding down her head on her husband's breast. When she raised it, his white nightrobe was stained with blood where her lips had touched, and where the thin open wound in the neck had sent forth drops. 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Company, […], →OCLC:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
sent forth Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
sent forth Tense=Past lexicographic
sends forth Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
sending forth Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic