dispatch

About 3.53 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To send (a shipment) with promptness.
2. verb To send (a person) away hastily.
3. verb To send (an important official message) promptly, by means of a diplomat or military officer.
4. verb To send (a journalist) to a place in order to report.
5. verb To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.
6. verb To eat, especially quickly.
7. verb To rid; to free.
8. verb To destroy (someone or something) quickly and efficiently.

Similar words

expedition expeditiousness hit send off remove despatch bump off complete slay discharge

Often followed by

of to from and the a in was that

Word family

dispatched dispatcher dispatchers dispatches dispatching