send down

verb(tr, adverb) British

to expel from a university, esp permanently
informal to send to prison

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How to use send down in a sentence

Bow Street has now been informed, and will send down by to-night's coach, but I do not think they will make much of the job.
A Thin Ghost and Others | M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James
And what particular fugitive would you like to send down it now?
Castellinaria | Henry Festing Jones
Put wet cloths round his head for the present; I will go and fetch my colleague, and I will send down some ice from the hospital.
Condemned as a Nihilist | George Alfred Henty
Did he not send down to parliament that message which denounced his queen a criminal?
Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) | Lady Anne Hamilton
As the tide runs out, the little ditches send down runnels of clear water.
Rivers of Great Britain. The Thames, from Source to Sea. | Anonymous

Other Idioms and Phrases with send down

send down

Suspend or dismiss from a university, principally a British one. For example, He's done very poorly ever since he was sent down from Oxford. [Mid-1800s]

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