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Definition of Send packing
1. Verb. Stop associating with. "They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock"
Generic synonyms: Can, Dismiss, Displace, Fire, Force Out, Give Notice, Give The Axe, Give The Sack, Sack, Send Away, Terminate
Related verbs: Drop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Send Packing
Literary usage of Send packing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thesaurus of English words and phrases by Peter Mark Roget, Samuel Romilly Roget (1879)
"... turn -, bundle- out ; throw overboard ; give the sack to ; send -packing, -
about one's business, - to the right about ; strike off the roll &c. ..."
2. Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Classified and Arranged So as to by Peter Mark Roget (1916)
"... turn -, bundle- out; throw overboard; give the sack to ; send -packing, -
about one's business, - to the right about; I strike off the roll &c. ..."
3. Readings in Modern European History: A Collection of Extracts from the by James Harvey Robinson, Charles Austin Beard (1908)
"I look out for good officers, but the debauched ones I send packing. Such people
of whatever rank I think no acquisition to my service. ..."
4. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Classified and Arranged So by Peter Mark Roget (1911)
"... turn -, bundle- out; throw overboard; give the sack to; send -packing, - about
one's business, - to the right about; strike off the roll &c. ..."
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