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Dispatch

To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.

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Broader term 23

Accomplish 76% connected

To complete, as time or distance.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Account 76% connected

A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Act 76% connected

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Action 76% connected

A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another;…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Celerity 76% connected

Rapidity of motion; quickness; swiftness.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Departure 76% connected

Division; separation; putting away.

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Execute 76% connected

To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Fulfil 76% connected

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Fulfill 76% connected

To fill up; to make full or complete.

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Going 76% connected

of Go

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Kill 76% connected

A kiln.

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Killing 76% connected

of Kill

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Leaving 76% connected

of Leave

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Quickness 76% connected

The condition or quality of being quick or living; life.

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Rapidity 76% connected

The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of a current; rapidity of speech; rapidity of growth or improvem…

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Rapidness 76% connected

Quality of being rapid; rapidity.

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Report 76% connected

To refer.

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Send 76% connected

To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.

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Ship 76% connected

Pay; reward.

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Speediness 76% connected

The quality or state of being speedy.

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Story 76% connected

A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered…

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Transport 76% connected

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.

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Manner of action 3

Burke 76% connected

To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection.

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Execute 76% connected

To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Route 76% connected

The course or way which is traveled or passed, or is to be passed; a passing; a course; a road or path; a march.

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Narrower term 1

Reshipment 76% connected

The act of reshipping; also, that which is reshippped.

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Derivationally related 6

Despatch 74% connected

Same as Dispatch.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Despatch 74% connected

Same as Dispatch.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Manslayer 74% connected

One who kills a human being; one who commits manslaughter.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Manslayer 74% connected

One who kills a human being; one who commits manslaughter.

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Synonym 10

Complete 92% connected

Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficiency; entire; perfect; consummate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Despatch 92% connected

Same as Dispatch.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Discharge 92% connected

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Expedition 92% connected

The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Hit 92% connected

It.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Murder 92% connected

The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Off 92% connected

In a general sense, denoting from or away from; as:

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Remove 92% connected

To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Shipment 92% connected

The act or process of shipping; as, he was engaged in the shipment of coal for London; an active shipment of wheat from the West.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Slay 92% connected

To put to death with a weapon, or by violence; hence, to kill; to put an end to; to destroy.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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