Antonyms for dispatch
dɪˈspætʃdis·patch

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1. dispatchverb

   Synonyms:
   make haste, destroy, kill, send

2. dispatchverb

   To send a shipment with promptness.

   Synonyms:
   destroy, send, kill, make haste

3. dispatchverb

   To send an important official message sent by a diplomat or military officer with promptness

   Synonyms:
   make haste, kill, send, destroy

4. dispatchverb

   To hurry

   Synonyms:
   kill, make haste, send, destroy

5. dispatchverb

   To deprive.

   Synonyms:
   kill, make haste, send, destroy

6. dispatchverb

   To destroy quickly and efficiently

   Synonyms:
   send, kill, make haste, destroy

7. dispatchverb

   To pass on for further processing, especially via a dispatch table (computing, often with to)

   Synonyms:
   send, make haste, destroy, kill

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1. dispatch

   Antonyms:
   retard, detain, obstruct, impede

   Synonyms:
   expedite, send, accelerate, hasten, execute, conclude, used also in the sense of kill

Matched Categories

1. • Act
   • Departure
   • Execute
   • Kill

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1. dispatch, despatch, communiquenoun

   an official report (usually sent in haste)

   Synonyms:
   expedition, despatch, shipment, communique, expeditiousness

2. dispatch, despatch, shipmentnoun

   the act of sending off something

   Synonyms:
   expeditiousness, consignment, cargo, lading, shipment, expedition, load, payload, loading, communique, freight, despatch

3. dispatch, despatch, expedition, expeditiousnessnoun

   the property of being prompt and efficient

   "it was done with dispatch"

   Synonyms:
   sashay, excursion, expeditiousness, jaunt, expedition, shipment, hostile expedition, outing, junket, communique, military expedition, pleasure trip, despatch

4. dispatch, despatchverb

   killing a person or animal

   Synonyms:
   expedition, despatch, shipment, communique, expeditiousness

5. dispatch, despatch, send offverb

   send away towards a designated goal

   Synonyms:
   polish off, off, murder, send off, discharge, despatch, slay, get off, remove, hit, bump off, complete, send, project

6. dispatch, discharge, completeverb

   complete or carry out

   "discharge one's duties"

   Synonyms:
   unload, empty, despatch, complete, expel, exhaust, go off, hit, nail, drop off, release, send off, fill out, finish, fire, polish off, off, fill in, slay, exculpate, assoil, set down, clear, make out, put down, acquit, murder, drop, discharge, exonerate, free, eject, muster out, bump off, remove

7. murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, removeverb

   kill intentionally and with premeditation

   "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"

   Synonyms:
   shoot, despatch, complete, wrap up, hit, arrive at, transfer, attain, send off, finish up, reach, eat up, take out, move out, get rid of, strike, score, finish, make, polish off, collide with, gain, mangle, withdraw, tally, off, finish off, absent, run into, stumble, slay, impinge on, clear up, murder, rack up, mutilate, mop up, discharge, come to, take away, take, pip, get through, bump off, remove

8. dispatchverb

   dispose of rapidly and without delay and efficiently

   "He dispatched the task he was assigned"

   Synonyms:
   polish off, off, murder, send off, discharge, despatch, slay, remove, hit, bump off, complete

9. dispatchverb

   kill without delay

   "the traitor was dispatched by the conspirators"

   Synonyms:
   polish off, off, murder, send off, discharge, despatch, slay, remove, hit, bump off, complete

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1. dispatchnoun

   Synonyms:
   haste, speed, celerity, expedition, message, telegram

How to use dispatch in a sentence?

1. Aldus Manutius:

   Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

2. Richard Thornton:

   We are not sitting waiting for the phone to ring, we are looking at social media. We are contacting partners, looking at 911 dispatch. Our own holdings. All the ways we can gather info to suggest there could be something.

3. Robert Sumwalt:

   We listened to the dispatch tape, and we heard no communications at all from the Amtrak engineer to the dispatch center to say that something had struck his train.

4. Jennifer Cafarella:

   These groups likely therefore retain more independence than Syrian rebel groups that pledge allegiance to ISIS, at least in the near term, iSIS appears to dispatch advisers to support local recruitment in such areas in an attempt to bolster the local strength of these groups, but does not augment their ranks with its own forces.

5. Faye Malarkey Black:

   If there's weather at the destination airport or the forecast of weather, then the dispatch isn't going to release that flight, in the instance that aircraft are enroute and are inbound to an airport, and fog rolls in... then you're going to have to circle, and then eventually divert to a reliever airport.

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