Antonyms for despatch
dɪˈspætʃdespatch

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1. despatch

   To kill is simply to deprive of life, human, animal, or vegetable, with no suggestion of how or why. Assassinate, execute, murder, apply only to the taking of human life; to murder is to kill with premeditation and malicious intent; to execute is to kill in fulfilment of a legal sentence; to assassinate is to kill by assault; this word is chiefly applied to the killing of public or eminent persons through alleged political motives, whether secretly or openly. To slay is to kill by a blow, or by a weapon. Butcher and slaughter apply primarily to the killing of cattle; massacre is applied primarily and almost exclusively to human beings, signifying to kill them indiscriminately in large numbers; to massacre is said when there is no chance of successful resistance; to butcher when the killing is especially brutal; soldiers mown down in a hopeless charge are said to be slaughtered when no brutality on the enemy's part is implied. To despatch is to kill swiftly and in general quietly, always with intention, with or without right.

   Synonyms:
   assassinate, butcher, execute, kill, massacre, murder, put to death, slaughter, slay

   Preposition:
   To kill with or by sword, famine, pestilence, care, grief, etc.; killed for his money, by a robber, with a dagger.

Matched Categories

1. • Killing
   • Quickness
   • Report

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dispatch, despatch, communiquenoun

   an official report (usually sent in haste)

   Synonyms:
   dispatch, expedition, shipment, communique, expeditiousness

2. dispatch, despatch, expedition, expeditiousnessnoun

   the property of being prompt and efficient

   "it was done with dispatch"

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

3. dispatch, despatchnoun

   killing a person or animal

   Synonyms:
   dispatch, expedition, shipment, communique, expeditiousness

4. dispatch, despatch, shipmentverb

   the act of sending off something

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

5. dispatch, despatch, send offverb

   send away towards a designated goal

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

How to use despatch in a sentence?

1. Feltham:

   The hooting fowler seldom takes much game. When a man has a project in his mind, digested and fixed by consideration, it is wise to keep it secret till the time that his designs arrive at their despatch and perfection. He is unwise who brags much either of what he will do or what he shall have, for if what he speaks of fall not out accordingly, instead of applause, a mock and scorn will follow him.

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