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dispatchnoun a message on paper from one person or group to anothera soldier sending daily dispatches to friends and family back home epistle, letter, memo, memorandum, missive, note billet-doux, open letterairmail, card, electronic mail, e-mail, junk mail, mail, postal card, postcardcommunication, reportencyclical a piece of conveyed informationa dispatch from headquarters regarding a change in battle plans communication, message bulletin, communiqué, express(British), reportmemo, memorandum, noticeepistle, letter, missive, noteelectronic mail, e-mail, voice mailintelligence, news, tidings, wordcommand, directive, instruction, order dispatchverbto cause to go or be taken from one place to anotherdispatched a messenger with urgent news consign, pack (off), send, ship, shoot, transfer, transmit, transport convey, deliver, hand over, pass, renderadvance, drop, launchaddress, forwardexport, importbestow, contribute, donate, give, presentresend, return accept, receive acquire, draw, earn, gain, garner, get, obtain, procure, secure to deprive of lifethe exterminator dispatched the termites with professional efficiency carry off, claim, croak(slang), destroy, do in, fell, kill, slay, take bump off, butcher, cut down, finish, get, ice(slang), knock off, murder, neutralize, off(slang), put away, rub out, scrag, snuff, take out, waste, whack(slang)annihilate, blot out, decimate, kill off, massacre, mow, slaughter, smiteassassinate, execute, martyr, terminateeuthanize(also euthanatize), put downsuicide do away with, do for(chiefly British), make away with animate raise, restore, resurrect, resuscitate, revivenurture to put to death deliberatelyduring his reign of terror the dictator dispatched thousands without the slightest qualm assassinate, bump off, croak(slang), do in, execute, get, ice(slang), knock off, liquidate, murder, neutralize, off(slang), put away, rub out, slay, snuff, take out, terminate, whack(slang) blow away, shoot, shoot downblot out, carry off, claim, cut down, destroy, fell, kill, smite, zapbutcher, massacre, mow (down), slaughterannihilate, eliminate, eradicate, exterminate, wipe out do away with animate, raise, restore, resurrect, resuscitate, revive to achieve a victory overthey dispatched the other team without breaking a sweat beat, best, conquer, defeat, do down(British), get, get around, lick, master, overbear, overcome, overmatch, prevail (over), skunk, stop, subdue, surmount, take, trim, triumph (over), upend, win (against), worst sweepedge (out), nose out, pip(British)annihilate, blow away, blow out, bomb, break, bury, clobber, cream, crush, drub, finish, flatten, overwhelm, rout, shellac, skin, slaughter, smoke(slang), snow under, thrash, trounce, upset, wallop, wax(slang), whipcap, excel, flourish, score, succeedknock off, knock over, overpower, overthrow, subjugate, unseat, vanquishace (out), better, eclipse, exceed, excel, outdistance, outdo, outfight, outshine, outstrip, overtop, surpass, top, transcend get the better of, knock for a loop lose (to) fall, give up, go down, go undercollapse, fail, flop, flunk, fold, wash out n.haste, hurry, speed, expedition, dispatch mean quickness in movement or action.haste applies to personal action and implies urgency and precipitancy and often rashness.marry in haste hurry often has a strong suggestion of agitated bustle or confusion.in the hurry of departure she forgot her toothbrush speed suggests swift efficiency in movement or action.exercises to increase your reading speed expedition and dispatch both imply speed and efficiency in handling affairs but expedition stresses ease or efficiency of performance and dispatch stresses promptness in concluding matters.the case came to trial with expedition paid bills with dispatch v.kill, slay, murder, assassinate, dispatch, execute mean to deprive of life.kill merely states the fact of death caused by an agency in any manner.killed in an accident frost killed the plants slay is a chiefly literary term implying deliberateness and violence but not necessarily motive.slew thousands of the Philistines murder specifically implies stealth and motive and premeditation and therefore full moral responsibility.convicted of murdering a rival assassinate applies to deliberate killing openly or secretly often for political motives.terrorists assassinated the Senator dispatch stresses quickness and directness in putting to death.dispatched the sentry with one bullet execute stresses putting to death as a legal penalty.executed by lethal gas in 1517 |