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},
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"name": "bor"
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"3": "dispacciare"
},
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"etymology_text": "From Spanish despachar or Italian dispacciare, replacing alternate reflex depeach, which is from French dépêcher. The first known use in writing (in the past tense, spelled as dispached) is by Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall in 1517. This would be unusually early for a borrowing from a Romance language other than French, but Tunstall had studied in Italy and was Commissioner to Spain, so this word may have been borrowed through diplomatic circles. The alternative spelling despatch was introduced in Samuel Johnson's dictionary, probably by accident.",
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"To send (a shipment) with promptness."
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"(transitive) To send (a shipment) with promptness."
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"sense": "to send with promptness",
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"sense": "to send with promptness",
"word": "verzenden"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to send with promptness",
"word": "lähettää"
},
{
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to send with promptness",
"word": "verschicken"
},
{
"_dis1": "29 20 18 19 2 1 2 1 5 2 1",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "to send with promptness",
"word": "versenden"
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"roman": "apostéllō",
"sense": "to send with promptness",
"word": "ἀποστέλλω"
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{
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to send with promptness",
"word": "elküld"
},
{
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"code": "nb",
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"sense": "to send with promptness",
"word": "avsende"
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"sense": "to send with promptness",
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"sense": "to send with promptness",
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"sense": "to send with promptness",
"word": "despachar"
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"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to send with promptness",
"word": "expedia"
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{
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"roman": "otpravljátʹ",
"sense": "to send with promptness",
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],
"word": "отправля́ть"
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"sense": "to send with promptness",
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"word": "отпра́вить"
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"word": "вы́слать"
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"sense": "to send with promptness",
"word": "despachar"
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to send with promptness",
"word": "gönderme"
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"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to send with promptness",
"word": "sevk etme"
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"ref": "2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Salarians: League of One Codex entry",
"text": "The League of One was suddenly exposed and in danger of being hunted by enemies of the salarians. Before any harm could be done, the team mysteriously disappeared.[...]Realizing the threat posed by this rogue outfit, the Special Tasks Group dispatched a team of hunters. When they didn't return, the STG dispatched ten of its brightest operators with broad discretionary powers. Only two returned; they reported no evidence of the League.",
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"To send (a person) away hastily."
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"(transitive) To send (a person) away hastily."
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"transitive"
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"To send (an important official message) promptly, by means of a diplomat or military officer."
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"(transitive) To send (an important official message) promptly, by means of a diplomat or military officer."
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"ref": "2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in New York Times",
"text": "Scores of foreign journalists have been dispatched to Seoul to report on the growing tensions between the two Koreas and the possibility of war.",
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"To send (a journalist) to a place in order to report."
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"(transitive) To send (a journalist) to a place in order to report."
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"ref": "1751 [1516], Thomas More, translated by Gilbert Burnet, Utopia, translation of original in New Latin",
"text": "the which company of harvest men, being ready at the day appointed, almost in one fair day dispatcheth all the harvest work.",
"type": "quotation"
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"glosses": [
"To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform."
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"(transitive) To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform."
],
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"transitive"
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{
"ref": "1548, Nicholas Udall, “The preface of Erasmus unto his paraphrase upon the Gospel of the Evangelist Matthew”, in The first tome or volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the newe testamente, translation of original by Desiderius Erasmus, page 33",
"text": "But whā I had cleane diſpatched myſelf of this great charge and taſke, I loked not that I ſhould at any tyme afterwarde have any more to doe with this kynde of writing",
"type": "quotation"
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"glosses": [
"To rid; to free."
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"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To rid; to free."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "2008, Monte Dwyer, Red In The Centre: The Australian Bush Through Urban Eyes, Monyer Pty Ltd, page 146",
"text": "\"And our dogs used to tree the cats on our property here, and we'd dispatch them.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2017 August 27, Brandon Nowalk, “Game Of Thrones slows down for the longest, and best, episode of the season (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club",
"text": "So Tyrion hatches one last brilliant scheme in a season full of them, and this one goes exactly as well as all the others, even if it doesn’t look like it at first. He alone takes a meeting with Cersei, in her chambers, with the Mountain ready and waiting to dispatch him.",
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"To destroy (someone or something) quickly and efficiently."
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"(transitive) To destroy (someone or something) quickly and efficiently."
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"word": "destroy"
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{
"word": "kill"
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"sense": "to destroy quickly and efficiently",
"word": "tappaa"
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"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to destroy quickly and efficiently",
"word": "tilintetgjøre"
},
{
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"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to destroy quickly and efficiently",
"word": "ødelegge"
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{
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "raspravljatʹsja",
"sense": "to destroy quickly and efficiently",
"word": "расправляться"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to destroy quickly and efficiently",
"word": "despacharse"
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{
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"sense": "to destroy quickly and efficiently",
"word": "omintetgöra"
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"ref": "2023 June 17, Emma Smith, “Malta 0-4 England”, in BBC Sport",
"text": "Gareth Southgate's side had little trouble dispatching the side 172nd in the Fifa rankings.",
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"sense": "to defeat",
"word": "besiegen"
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"sense": "to defeat",
"word": "despachar"
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"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to defeat",
"word": "yenme"
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"ref": "2004, Peter Gutmann, Cryptographic Security Architecture: Design and Verification, page 102",
"text": "These handlers perform any additional checking and processing that may be necessary before and after a message is dispatched to an object. In addition, some message types are handled internally by the kernel[…]",
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"(transitive, computing) To pass on for further processing, especially via a dispatch table (often with to)."
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"ref": "1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume 1, I.6",
"text": "Proceed, friend Nicolas, and let us dispatch; for, it grows late.",
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"To hurry."
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"(intransitive, obsolete) To hurry."
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"sense": "to hurry",
"word": "бързам"
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "to hurry",
"word": "beeilen"
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "viázomai",
"sense": "to hurry",
"word": "βιάζομαι"
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"sense": "to hurry",
"word": "ekspedere"
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to hurry",
"word": "apressar-se"
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{
"_dis1": "2 3 2 2 4 1 1 2 2 79 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "spešitʹ",
"sense": "to hurry",
"word": "спешить"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to hurry",
"word": "despachar"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 2 2 4 1 1 2 2 79 1",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to hurry",
"word": "acele etme"
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"To deprive."
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"sense": "to deprive",
"word": "entziehen"
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{
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"sense": "to deprive",
"word": "privar"
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{
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lišátʹ",
"sense": "to deprive",
"word": "лиша́ть"
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{
"_dis1": "1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 86",
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"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to deprive",
"word": "privar"
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{
"_dis1": "1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 86",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to deprive",
"word": "mahrum etme"
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{
"_dis1": "1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 86",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to deprive",
"word": "yoksun bırakma"
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"name": "bor"
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"3": "dispacciare"
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"name": "bor"
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{
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"sense": "message sent quickly",
"word": "envío urgente"
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{
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"sense": "message sent quickly",
"word": "çabuk yollama"
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"word": "comunicado"
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