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dispatched

verb

past tense of dispatch
1
as in sent
to cause to go or be taken from one place to another dispatched a messenger with urgent news

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2
as in destroyed
to deprive of life the exterminator dispatched the termites with professional efficiency

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3
as in assassinated
to put to death deliberately during his reign of terror the dictator dispatched thousands without the slightest qualm

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4
as in defeated
to achieve a victory over they dispatched the other team without breaking a sweat

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Recent Examples of dispatched Raczkowski, who was dispatched to the call, called the 911 dispatcher to order a cab for Reaves and to inquire about outstanding warrants. — Jim Turner, Sun Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2026 Times may be affected because SEECOM is on a different radio frequency than QuadCom, requiring mutual aid to be dispatched through phone calls, Rynders said. — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026 When winter arrived, Caltrans dispatched him east to Caples Lake in the Sierra Nevada mountains to work as a chain controller — part of an annual seasonal draw from valley yards to keep heavy mountain passes operational. — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 15 Sep. 2026 He was dispatched to the Alaska Peninsula to do biological inventories on public land that was up for lease to private companies. — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026 The incident was first reported by an island resident, after which a rescue team was dispatched. — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 13 Sep. 2026 Zverev dispatched Botic van de Zandschulp 6-2, 7-5, 6-1 to advance to his fourth consecutive major semifinal. — Takashi Williams, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026 The department then dispatched its SWAT team along with three armored vehicles and a drone team, Oldoerp said. — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026 Semendinger, a helicopter pilot, had been dispatched to the World Trade Center right after the first plane attack that morning in 2001. — Miles J. Herszenhorn, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dispatched
  1. sent
  2. destroyed
  3. assassinated
  4. defeated
  5. killed
  6. murdered
  7. mastered
  8. executed
Verb
  • Some in Broadview had been sent to facilities in Texas and Arizona.
    — Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Nevertheless, 12 people have been sent back to their countries of origin, according to their lawyers, including four Ethiopians earlier this month.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2026
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  • The Russian Defense Ministry on Friday said its air defenses intercepted and destroyed 629 Ukrainian drones overnight over 14 Russian regions, as well as illegally annexed Crimea and the Azov and the Black seas.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Sep. 2026
  • In the course of three weeks, Israeli soldiers destroyed much of the area, razing schools and mosques and commandeering buildings for use as military posts.
    — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of destroyed
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  • In the late 1990s, there were calls for the citizenship of Yigal Amir, who assassinated former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, to be removed.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2026
  • The program tonight will include a tribute to the late republican activist Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated one year ago, and an observance of the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, which is Friday.
    — Tamara Keith, NPR, 10 Sep. 2026
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  • In 2022, Hoover defeated sitting legislator Ken Cooley by just 1 percentage point in a race that took days to call.
    — Naomi Taxay, Sacbee.com, 20 Sep. 2026
  • The Rangers defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 6-2 on Saturday night in Arlington, followed shortly by the completion of the Houston Astros’ 6-3 loss to the Atlanta Braves in Houston.
    — Jim Barnes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of defeated
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  • Some earlier assassins expected it of themselves, canceling plots that would have killed bystanders.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
  • In Georgia, the execution of a man who killed two real estate agents had also been scheduled for Wednesday but was halted by a judge's late-night decision a day before he was scheduled to die.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of killed
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  • That was the fate of Jeffrey Dahmer’s former apartment building and the Idaho house where Bryan Kohberger murdered four college students.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 21 Sep. 2026
  • In 1892, Andrew Borden and his wife, Abby, were murdered in broad daylight inside their Massachusetts home, just blocks from the town’s busy center.
    — Alex Gurley, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of murdered
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  • Those awardees — the people who developed and mastered the famous landing capability of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket — were announced in April.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Players like Alcaraz, Sinner and Djokovic have mastered the art of using their open-stance backhand to stretch into and out of the corners.
    — Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of mastered
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  • Meanwhile, Iran’s state TV said a man was executed after being convicted on charges of spying for Israel.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026
  • The following August, six Israeli hostages were executed by Hamas in a tunnel in Rafah, after more than three hundred days in captivity.
    — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of executed

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“Dispatched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dispatched. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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