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send packing
verb
stop associating with
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They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock

• Syn: ↑dismiss, ↑send away, ↑drop
• Hypernyms:
↑displace, ↑fire, ↑give notice, ↑can, ↑dismiss, ↑give the axe, ↑send away, ↑sack, ↑force out, ↑give the sack, ↑terminate
• Verb Group: ↑drop
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s somebody

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phrasal
: to send off roughly or in disgrace : dismiss; especially : to dismiss unceremoniously

see that she sends this young whippersnapper packing — Louis Auchincloss

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send (someone or something) packing — see ↑send
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Main Entry: ↑pack
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send (someone or something) packing
informal : to force (someone or something) to leave a place or situation

We were sent packing after the first day of tryouts.

A loss in tomorrow's game will send them packing. [=will eliminate them from the competition]

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Main Entry: ↑send

Useful english dictionary. 2012.