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dispatch

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of dispatch

1 a message on paper from one person or group to another

a soldier sending daily dispatches to friends and family back home

Synonyms of dispatch

epistle, letter, memo, memorandum, missive, note

Words Related to dispatch

billet-doux, open letter

airmail, card, electronic mail, e-mail, junk mail, mail, postal card, postcard

communication, report

2 a piece of conveyed information

a dispatch from headquarters regarding a change in battle plans

Synonyms of dispatch

communication, message

Words Related to dispatch

bulletin, communiqué, express [British], report

memo, memorandum, notice

epistle, letter, missive, note

electronic mail, e-mail, voice mail

intelligence, news, tidings, word

command, directive, instruction, order

Synonym Discussion of dispatch

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

dispatch

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of dispatch

1 to cause to go or be taken from one place to another

dispatched a messenger with urgent news

Synonyms of dispatch

consign, pack (off), send, ship, shoot, transfer, transmit, transport

Words Related to dispatch

convey, deliver, hand over, pass, render

advance, drop, launch

address, forward

bestow, contribute, donate, give, present

Near Antonyms of dispatch

acquire, draw, earn, gain, garner, get, obtain, procure, secure

Antonyms of dispatch

accept, receive

2 to deprive of life

the exterminator dispatched the termites with professional efficiency

Synonyms of dispatch

carry off, claim, croak [slang], destroy, do in, fell, kill, slay, take

Words Related to dispatch

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, smite

assassinate, execute, martyr, terminate

euthanize (also euthanatize), put down

Phrases Synonymous with dispatch

do away with, do for [chiefly British], make away with

Near Antonyms of dispatch

raise, restore, resurrect, resuscitate, revive

Antonyms of dispatch

3 to put to death deliberately

during his reign of terror the dictator dispatched thousands without the slightest qualm

Synonyms of dispatch

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]

Words Related to dispatch

blow away, shoot, shoot down

blot out, carry off, claim, cut down, destroy, fell, kill, smite, zap

butcher, massacre, mow (down), slaughter

annihilate, eliminate, eradicate, exterminate, wipe out

Phrases Synonymous with dispatch

do away with

Near Antonyms of dispatch

animate, raise, restore, resurrect, resuscitate, revive

4 to achieve a victory over

they dispatched the other team without breaking a sweat

Synonyms of dispatch

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

Words Related to dispatch

edge (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], whip

cap, excel, flourish, score, succeed

knock off, knock over, overpower, overthrow, subjugate, unseat, vanquish

ace (out), better, eclipse, exceed, excel, outdistance, outdo, outfight, outshine, outstrip, overtop, surpass, top, transcend

Phrases Synonymous with dispatch

get the better of, knock for a loop

Near Antonyms of dispatch

fall, give up, go down, go under

collapse, fail, flop, flunk, fold, wash out

Antonyms of dispatch

Synonym Discussion of dispatch

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

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