dispatch

1. verb

1)

all the messages were dispatched

Syn:

send (off), post, mail, forward, transmit, e-mail

2)

the business was dispatched in the morning

Syn:

deal with, finish, conclude, settle, discharge, perform; expedite, push through; informal make short work of

3)

the hero dispatched a host of villains

Syn:

kill, put to death, take/end the life of; slaughter, butcher, massacre, wipe out, exterminate, eliminate; murder, assassinate, execute; informal bump off, do in, do away with, take out, blow away, ice, rub out, waste; literary slay

See note at kill

2. noun

1)

files ready for dispatch

Syn:

sending, posting, mailing, e-mailing

2)

efficiency and dispatch

Syn:

promptness, speed, speediness, swiftness, rapidity, briskness, haste, hastiness; literary fleetness, celerity

3)

the latest dispatch from the front

Syn:

communication, communiqué, bulletin, report, statement, letter, message; news, intelligence; informal memo, info, story, lowdown, scoop; literary tidings

4)

the capture and dispatch of the rogue bull

Syn:

killing, slaughter, massacre, extermination, elimination; murder, assassination, execution; literary slaying