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Definition of Send back
1. Verb. Refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision.
Generic synonyms: Challenge
Derivative terms: Remission, Remit, Remitment
Definition of Send back
1. Verb. (transitive) To return (something) to its origin. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) to remind (someone) of a previous time in the past. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Send Back
Literary usage of Send back
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass (1855)
"stared at us from every street corner; "send back TUB MONEY !" in large capitals,
adorned the broad flags of the pavement; " send back TIN-; ..."
2. A Vers de Société Anthology by Carolyn Wells (1907)
"send back MY LONG-STRAY'D EYES TO ME SEND back my long-stray'd eyes to me, Which, O!
too long have dwelt on thee: But if from you they've learnt such ill, ..."
3. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"Remand, to send back. ... to send back word. — L. re-, back ; mandare, to send ;
see Mandate. Remark, to take notice of. (F.-L. ami Teut. ..."
4. Journals of Expeditions of Discovery Into Central Australia, and Overland by Edward John Eyre (1845)
"... authorizing me " to send back the Waterwitch to Adelaide for assistance, if
required." From the experience I had already had, and from the knowledge I ..."
5. Letters and Literary Memorials of Samuel J. Tilden by Samuel Jones Tilden (1908)
"I am writing on the train to send back by to-day's mail. " Very truly yours, "
SMITH M. WEED." SAM. J. RANDALL TO TILDEN " HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, US, ..."
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