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verb

present tense third-person singular of dispatch
1
as in sends
to cause to go or be taken from one place to another dispatched a messenger with urgent news

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2
as in kills
to deprive of life the exterminator dispatched the termites with professional efficiency

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3
as in murders
to put to death deliberately during his reign of terror the dictator dispatched thousands without the slightest qualm

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4
as in defeats
to achieve a victory over they dispatched the other team without breaking a sweat

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dispatches

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noun

plural of dispatch
1
as in letters
a message on paper from one person or group to another a soldier sending daily dispatches to friends and family back home

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2
as in messages
a piece of conveyed information a dispatch from headquarters regarding a change in battle plans

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Recent Examples of dispatches
Verb
Even though the department no longer dispatches officers to the scenes of minor accidents, LAPD statistics show that enforcement the department’s 308-member traffic bureau has gone up. — Hailey Wang, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026 The officer immediately dispatches that shots had been fired. — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 21 Aug. 2026 While Skokie has taken the co-responder approach, Evanston dispatches a civilian-only force to respond to certain calls. — Shun Graves, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2026 Instead, calls to the county’s Department of Mental Health help line, which dispatches the mobile response teams, increased by 31% during that same time period. — Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 11 Aug. 2026 One night, a cockroach breaches his citadel, and Pratt swiftly dispatches it. — Asim Ali, Time, 1 Aug. 2026 Stand Up Placer officials said the organization’s Domestic Violence Emergency Response Team, which dispatches advocates to hospitals and crime scenes alongside law enforcement, responded to 856 callouts, up from 812 the year before. — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 30 July 2026 Tax season is busy, but the IRS dispatches extra agents to answer calls in the weeks leading up to April 15. — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 27 June 2026 Robin quickly and viscerally dispatches his foe, before going up against a larger swath of enemies who are targeting his former partner-in-banditry Little John (played by Bill Skarsgård). — David Sims, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026
Noun
Ada Scott, an elderly reporter who was close to retirement, regularly wrote glowing dispatches about Puente in the 1960s for The East Yolo Record, a newspaper that operated in what is now West Sacramento. — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2026 In the spirit of snacking, here are bite-sized dispatches from some of the Vogue team’s favorite foods at fashion week. — Anna Grace Lee, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2026 As Washington dispatches envoys and Ukraine hits a key Russian Black Sea naval base, both sides dig in for a grinding war that Zelensky warns must bring real consequences for Moscow. — Samya Kullab, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026 For common-sense dispatches from the frontier of ETF proliferation and smart portfolio construction, check out the X account and research pieces of Morningstar Research's Jeffrey Ptak. — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2026 Xinhua News has issued official reports about the disaster and technical dispatches about the science of the glacial lakes. — ABC News, 4 Sep. 2026 Once Lamb starts publishing daily dispatches about her abduction at the hands of Indo‑Trinidadian radicals demanding a ransom, the writing is on the walls that this woman is going to die. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2026 The chattiness of Eddy’s dispatches does little to conceal that the novel’s Jamaica is a grim place for gay men. — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026 The City Council is now considering a bill that would require City Hall to issue emergency notifications any time FDNY EMS has more than 25 pending ambulance dispatches. — Ali Bauman, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dispatches
  1. sends
  2. kills
  3. murders
  4. defeats
  5. letters
  6. messages
  7. ships
  8. destroys
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  • The Pentagon has communicated to NATO members that a US procurement program that sends weapons to Ukraine via NATO is continuing uninterrupted, a European official told Semafor, echoing comments made by the US ambassador to NATO earlier this week.
    — Morgan Chalfant, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • In Area 5, Singh, 37, attended Elk Grove Unified schools as a child and now sends his own children to district schools.
    — Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 15 Oct. 2026
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  • Russian barrage kills a 21-year-old woman The Russian nighttime barrage hit 28 substations and other crucial energy facilities, depriving more than half a million people of electricity, heat and running water, Zelensky said on social media.
    — Samya Kullab, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
  • How to make a watch party interactive Dead air during commercials kills the mood fast.
    — Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of kills
Verb
  • This included three of the women involved in the brutal Manson murders — Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Leslie Van Houten — all scheduled to be gassed.
    — M. Sara Rosenthal, STAT, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Joe almost murders Morgan (Sherry and Morgan in the same episode?
    — Alice Burton, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026
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  • In the final race of his career, 3-year-old Man O War defeats 1919 Triple Crown winner Sir Barton in a match race, the Kenilworth Park Gold Cup.
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026
  • This eventually defeats Other Mommy, leaving the happy family of three intact — even though there’s subtext that Bela will always have a little discomfort around her mother.
    — William Earl, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of defeats
Noun
  • The letters warns that legal action may follow if the state does not meet the 48-hour deadline to review the list.
    — SAFIYAH RIDDLE, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Her boyfriend Tom Arnold becomes a writer/producer and complains that someone there stole his love letters and sold out his steamy relationship with Roseanne to the National Enquirer.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of letters
Noun
  • Though postponed, the 73-year-old musician knew the band’s messages would land with as much timeliness as ever.
    — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The bulk of the population actually engages in a rather high volume of daily digital reading--captions, emails, text and chat messages, news feeds, search results, etc.
    — Dana Kelley, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of messages
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  • Avalo, which uses AI to naturally breed cotton that can adapt in the region it’s grown, then ships each order.
    — Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The coffee shop ships New York bagels from a national distributor two to three times a week so New Yorkers can get a taste of home.
    — Sheeka Sanahori, Bon Appetit Magazine, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of ships
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  • Unlike a measurement that absorbs or destroys the photons, this method can extract information while preserving the photons themselves.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Raking or shredding those leaves destroys the next generation.
    — Manjot Kaur Sidhu, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2026
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“Dispatches.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dispatches. Accessed 22 Oct. 2026.

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