Word Meanings - DESPATCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DESPATCH)
- Celerity
- Rapidity
- speed
- haste
- velocity
- swiftness
- quickness
- fleetness
- despatch
- Expedition
- Haste
- Speed
- celerity
- expedition
- hurry
- excitement
- heedlessness
- Kill
- Slay
- murder
- assassinate
- destroy
- slaughter
- butcher
- immolate
- massacre
- deaden
- put to death
- Relegate
- Remove
- transfer
- banish
- transport
- exile
- deport
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DESPATCH)
Related words: (words related to DESPATCH)
- SPECTACLE
An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light. 4. pl. (more info) 1. Something exhibited to view; usually, - SPERMATOCYTE
See SPERMOBLAST - IMMOLATE
To sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a sacrificial victim. Worshipers, who not only immolate to them the lives of men, but . . . the virtue and honor of women. Boyle. (more info) orig., to sprinkle a victim with sacrifical meal; pref. - SPECIFICNESS
The quality or state of being specific. - SPERMATIC
Of or pertaining to semen; as, the spermatic fluid, the spermatic vessels, etc. Spermatic cord , the cord which suspends the testicle within the scrotum. It is made up of a connective tissue sheath inclosing the spermatic duct and accompanying - SPERMATICAL
Spermatic. - DEATHLIKE
1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak. - DEATHLY
Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive. - SPECTROGRAPH
An apparatus for photographing or mapping a spectrum. A photograph or picture of a spectrum. -- Spec`tro*graph"ic , a. --Spec`tro*graph"ic*al*ly , adv. --Spec*trog"ra*phy , n. - SLAUGHTERHOUSE
A house where beasts are butchered for the market. - EXILE
who quits, or is banished from, his native soil; ex out + solum ground, land, soil, or perh. fr.the root of salire to leap, spring; 1. Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; - SPECK
The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus. Speck falls , falls or ropes rove through blocks for hoisting the blubber and bone of whales on board a whaling vessel. - BUTCHERING
1. The business of a butcher. 2. The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly. That dreadful butchering of one another. Addison. - SPECE
Species; kind. Chaucer. - SPECTATORSHIP
1. The office or quality of a spectator. Addison. 2. The act of beholding. Shak. - SPEECHLESS
1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n. - SPENDTHRIFT
One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life. Mrs. R. H. Davis. - SPEED COUNTER
A device for automatically counting the revolutions or pulsations of an engine or other machine; -- called also simply counter. - SPENCE
despendre to spend, distribute, L. dispendere, dispensum. See 1. A place where provisions are kept; a buttery; a larder; a pantry. Chiefly Brit. dial. In . . . his spence, or "pantry" were hung the carcasses of a sheep or ewe, and two cows lately - SPERMATOZOOID
A spermatozoid. - ASPER
Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce. "An asper sound." Bacon. - ANGIOMONOSPERMOUS
Producing one seed only in a seed pod. - OOSPERM; OOESPERM
The ovum, after fusion with the spermatozoön in impregnation. Balfour. - DISPENSE
1. To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines. He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company. Sir W. Scott. 2. - MISPENSE
See HALL - INDISPENSABLENESS
The state or quality of being indispensable, or absolutely necessary. S. Clarke. - SUSPENSORY
Of or pertaining to a suspensorium. (more info) 1. Suspended; hanging; depending. 2. Fitted or serving to suspend; suspending; as, a suspensory muscle. Ray. - DISPERSION
The separation of light into its different colored rays, arising from their different refrangibilities. Dispersion of the optic axes , the separation of the optic axes in biaxial crystals, due to the fact that the axial angle has different values - JASPERATED
mixed with jasper; containing particles of jasper; as, jasperated agate. - DISRESPECTABILITY
Want of respectability. Thackeray. - CIRCUMSPECTNESS
Vigilance un guarding against evil from every quarter; caution. forces circumspectness on those abroad, who at home are nursed in security. Sir H. Wotton.