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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

encyclical
2 a piece of conveyed information
  • The general sent a dispatch to headquarters.
Synonyms of dispatch

communication, message
Words Related to dispatch

bulletin, communiqué, 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

export, import

bestow, contribute, donate, give, present

resend, return
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

butcher, cut down, finish, get, murder, rub out, scrag, snuff, take out, waste

annihilate, blot out, decimate, kill off, massacre, mow, slaughter, smite

assassinate, execute, martyr, terminate
Phrases Synonymous with dispatch

do away with, make away with
Near Antonyms of dispatch

raise, restore, resurrect, resuscitate, revive

nurture
Antonyms of dispatch

animate
3 to put to death deliberately
  • was forced to dispatch the injured animal
Synonyms of dispatch

assassinate, bump off, croak [slang], do in, execute, get, liquidate, murder, rub out, slay, terminate
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, get, get around, lick, master, overbear, overcome, overmatch, prevail (over), skunk, subdue, surmount, take, trim, triumph (over), upend, win (against), worst
Words Related to dispatch

sweep

edge (out), nose out

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

lose (to)

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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