n. 25B6; verb
all the messages were dispatched : SEND (OFF), post, mail, forward, transmit.
the business was dispatched in the morning : DEAL WITH, finish, conclude, settle, discharge, perform; expedite, push through; informal make short work of.
the good guy dispatched a host of villains : KILL, put to death, take/end the life of; slaughter, butcher, massacre, wipe out, exterminate, eliminate; murder, assassinate, execute; informal bump off, do in, do away with, top, take out, blow away; N. Amer. informal ice, rub out, waste; poetic/literary slay.
25B6; noun
goods ready for dispatch : SENDING, posting, mailing.
efficiency and dispatch : PROMPTNESS, speed, speediness, swiftness, rapidity, briskness, haste, hastiness; poetic/literary fleetness, celerity; formal expedition.
the latest dispatch from the front : COMMUNICATION, communiqué, bulletin, report, statement, letter, message; news, intelligence; informal memo, info, low-down; poetic/literary tidings.
the capture and dispatch of the wolf : KILLING, slaughter, massacre, extermination, elimination; murder, assassination, execution; poetic/literary slaying.