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Dispatch   /dɪspˈætʃ/   Listen
Dispatch

noun
(Written also despatch)
1.
An official report (usually sent in haste).  Synonyms: communique, despatch.
2.
The act of sending off something.  Synonyms: despatch, shipment.
3.
The property of being prompt and efficient.  Synonyms: despatch, expedition, expeditiousness.
4.
Killing a person or animal.  Synonym: despatch.
verb
(past & past part. dispatched; pres. part. dispatching)  (Written also despatch)
1.
Send away towards a designated goal.  Synonyms: despatch, send off.
2.
Complete or carry out.  Synonyms: complete, discharge.
3.
Kill intentionally and with premeditation.  Synonyms: bump off, hit, murder, off, polish off, remove, slay.
4.
Dispose of rapidly and without delay and efficiently.
5.
Kill without delay.



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"Dispatch" Quotes from Famous Books



... territories, and even when I should have quitted them. 'For,' said he, 'the moment the death of the mollah bashi is known, and as soon as the chief executioner shall have discovered the loss of his horse, he will not fail to dispatch officers throughout the country in search of you, and you are too conspicuous a character now not to be easily traced. It will be much better for you to take refuge with me, who will not fail to avert any inquiries, until the event ...
— The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan • James Morier
... the dark corner and walked evenly toward the center where Kohlvihr stood, his aides about him—poor old Doltmir standing apart and distressed. The moment had come for the order to be given. Kohlvihr turned to a dispatch rider at the door—a door made ...
— Red Fleece • Will Levington Comfort
... particular theme we are discussing, it is not really so. Like a dark thunder-cloud on the horizon the menace of Japanese action has rendered frank Chinese co-operation, even in such a simple matter as war-measures against Germany, a thing of supreme difficulty. The mere rumour that China might dispatch an Expeditionary Force to Mesopotamia was sufficient to send the host of unofficial Japanese agents in Peking scurrying in every direction and insisting that if the Chinese did anything at all they should limit themselves to sending troops to Russia, where they would ...
— The Fight For The Republic in China • Bertram Lenox Putnam Weale
... short by a lumbering noise, which proved to be the advance of the expected vehicle, pressing forward with all the dispatch to which the broken-winded jades that drew it could possibly be urged. With ineffable pleasure, Mrs. Macleuchar saw her tormentor deposited in the leathern convenience; but still, as it was driving ...
— The Antiquary, Complete • Sir Walter Scott
... he had lost an important battle: when it was in his power to beat the enemies in detail, and render them unable to undertake the siege of Mons, or any other siege. If Boufflers was indignant at this, he was still more indignant at what happened afterwards. In the first dispatch he sent to the King he promised to send another as soon as possible giving full details, with propositions as to how the vacancies which had occurred in the army might be filled up. On the very evening he sent off his second dispatch, he received intelligence that the King had already ...
— The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete • Duc de Saint-Simon


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