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send down

• expel a student from a university.
• "he was sent down from Oxford without a degree"
Similar: expel, exclude, rusticate,
Opposite: admit, readmit,
• sentence someone to imprisonment.
• "you're going to get sent down for possessing drugs"
Similar: send to prison, sentence to imprisonment, imprison, jail, incarcerate, lock up, confine, detain, intern, immure, put away, bang up,
Opposite: release, let off,
• bowl a ball or an over.
• "Bainbridge sent down 25 overs and finished with 5 for 44"


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