send down

verb

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

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Idioms and Phrases

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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And when basketball takes a break in the summer, he will still be tempted to pick up a tennis racket and send down a few serves.

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When you wring out this more powerful sponge, it sends down heavier rains than before.

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Canada’s star was David Winckworth, who made 12 with the bat before sending down a few round-arm thunderbolts of his own, taking four wickets as the Americans were dismissed for 64.

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We had a cunning little dipper we could send down into the pan on a length of picture wire.

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This is done using a specific type of satellite called an altimeter, which sends down radar pulses to very precisely measure the height of the ice surface.

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