Word Meanings - DISPATCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

des- + LL. pedicare to place obstacles in the way, fr. L. pedica fetter, fr. pes, pedis, foot. See Foot, and cf. 1. To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform. Ere we put ourselves

Additional info about word: DISPATCH

des- + LL. pedicare to place obstacles in the way, fr. L. pedica fetter, fr. pes, pedis, foot. See Foot, and cf. 1. To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform. Ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we The business we have talked of. Shak. harvest men . . . almost in one fair day dispatcheth all the harvest work. Robynson . 2. To rid; to free. I had clean dispatched myself of this great charge. Udall. 3. To get rid of by sending off; to send away hastily. Unless dispatched to the mansion house in the country . . . they perish among the lumber of garrets. Walpole. 4. To send off or away; -- particularly applied to sending off messengers, messages, letters, etc., on special business, and implying haste. Even with the speediest expedition I will dispatch him to the emperor's couShak. 5. To send out of the world; to put to death. The company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords. Ezek. xxiii. 47. Syn. -- To expedite; hasten; speed; accelerate; perform; conclude; finish; slay; kill.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISPATCH)

• Accelerate
• Hasten
• urge
• expedite
• quicken
• speed
• urge on
• press forward
• hurry
• promote
• dispatch
• facilitate
• Rapidity
• Quickness
• swiftness
• velocity
• celerity

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