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synonyms for sending up

  • apprehend
  • commit
  • detain
  • hold
  • incarcerate
  • jail
  • lock up
  • remand
  • cage
  • check
  • circumscribe
  • closet
  • constrain
  • curb
  • ice
  • immure
  • impound
  • intern
  • keep
  • limit
  • nab
  • occlude
  • pen
  • restrain
  • stockade
  • trammel
  • bastille
  • bottle up
  • fence in
  • hold captive
  • hold hostage
  • hold in custody
  • keep captive
  • keep in custody
  • lock in
  • put away
  • put behind bars
  • rail in
  • send to prison
  • send up
  • shut in
  • take prisoner
On this page you'll find 853 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sending up, such as: apprehend, commit, detain, hold, incarcerate, and jail.

antonyms for sending up

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  • cease
  • free
  • let go
  • liberate
  • release
  • stop
  • aid
  • allow
  • assist
  • help
  • permit
  • applaud
  • approve
  • praise
  • support
  • approve
  • flatter
  • praise
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How to use sending up in a sentence

I can imagine a scout standing here sending up smoke signals.
MYSTERY RANCHARTHUR CHAPMAN
Soon the whole front end of the hotel collapsed, sending up a fierce cloud of smoke, ashes, and sparks.
THE RIVAL CAMPERSRUEL PERLEY SMITH
All around are the white tents of the command, the innumerable camp-fires sending up blue columns of smoke.
THE BOYS OF '61CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN.
Meanwhile Mr. Boxall was sending up distress signals from the deck.
LOSS OF THE STEAMSHIP 'TITANIC'BRITISH GOVERNMENT
It spreads rapidly, sending up a flower-stalk from every "pip."
AMATEUR GARDENCRAFTEBEN E. REXFORD
The tents were open, and little cooking fires, sending up their spirals of blue smoke were dotted over the sand.
SIX WOMENVICTORIA CROSS
On sending up my card, I was at once admitted, and found him in the drawing-room reclining on the sofa.
THE SHEEPFOLD AND THE COMMON, VOL. II (OF 2)TIMOTHY EAST
Her not sending up word that she wished him to come to her rendered his battle easier.
RHODA FLEMING, COMPLETEGEORGE MEREDITH
At the moment when urgent necessity is sending up prices, one of them brings me a magnificent Gad-fly intended for the Bembex.
MORE HUNTING WASPSJ. HENRI FABRE
THE fire crumbled, sending up a flash which threw into relief the narrator's gnarled red face under its grey-black stubble.
TALES OF MEN AND GHOSTSEDITH WHARTON
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
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