Definitions for sent

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IPA: /sɛnt/

Sent is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in sent (enst).

Definitions for sent

noun

1. a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
2. the heaving motion of a vessel.
3. the forward impulse imparted by the motion of a sea against a vessel.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of send1 .

Idioms

1. send packing, to dismiss curtly; send away in disgrace:
2. send round, to circulate or dispatch widely:

Verb phrases

1. send down, British. to expel, especially from Oxford or Cambridge.
2. send for, to request the coming or delivery of; summon:
3. send forth, to produce; bear; yield: to dispatch out of a country as an export. to issue, as a publication: to emit or discharge:
4. send in, to cause to be dispatched or delivered to a destination:
5. send off, to cause to depart or to be conveyed from oneself; dispatch; dismiss:
6. send out, to distribute; issue. to send on the way; dispatch: to order delivery:
7. send up, to release or cause to go upward; let out. Informal. to sentence or send to prison: to expose the flaws or foibles of through parody, burlesque, caricature, lampoon, or other forms of satire:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause, permit, or enable to go:
2. to cause to be conveyed or transmitted to a destination:
3. to order, direct, compel, or force to go:
4. to direct, propel, or deliver to a particular point, position, condition, or direction:
5. to emit, discharge, or utter (usually followed by off, out, or through):
6. to cause to occur or befall:
7. Electricity. to transmit (a signal). to transmit (an electromagnetic wave or the like) in the form of pulses.
8. Slang. to delight or excite:

verb (used without object)

1. to dispatch a messenger, agent, message, etc.
2. Electricity. to transmit a signal:
3. scend.
4. to heave in a swell.
5. to lurch forward from the motion of a heavy sea.

Origin of sent

Estonian senti (compare Finnish sentti) Latin centum hundred; see centum¹

Examples for sent

What a dangerous character you'd be if you were sent to match silks!

The reality TV mogul bared her butt—and everything else, too—for Paper Magazine in a spread that sent Twitter into a tizzy.

Leelah Alcorn's message was sent, and heard, and things started changing.

And don't you say to any one else that I ever seen him or sent you there.

President Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne Division to force Faubus to admit the students to Central High School.

As for this new edict, it will prove a rebounding arrow, striking him who sent it.

You've sent Briggs off, and I've all that packing and unpacking to do.

I know all about that, and who was the means of having him sent away.

But the act of killing herself done, the message was sent, and heard, and things started changing.

From there we took the train to Nice, France, but the French border control caught us and sent us back to Italy.