dispatch
/dɪˈspæt͡ʃ/ verbo C1En español: despachar, privar, despacharse
- To send (a shipment) with promptness.
- To send (a person) away hastily.
- To send (an important official message) promptly, by means of a diplomat or military officer.
- To send (a journalist) to a place in order to report.
- To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.
- To eat, especially quickly.
- To rid; to free.
- To destroy (someone or something) quickly and efficiently.
He/she/it dispatches · Pasado dispatched · Participio pasado dispatched · Forma en -ing dispatching
Formas del verbo
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- Pasado
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- Participio pasado
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- Forma en -ing
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From twelve to two o’clock Danglars had remained in his study, unsealing his dispatches, and becoming more and more sad every minute, heaping figure upon figure, and receiving, among other visits, one from Major Cavalcanti, who, as stiff and exact as ever, presented himself precisely at the hour named the night before, to terminate his business with the banker.
I was dispatched, accordingly, in the troopship “Orontes,” and landed a month later on Portsmouth jetty, with my health irretrievably ruined, but with permission from a paternal government to spend the next nine months in attempting to improve it.
Sherlock Holmes led me to the nearest telegraph office, whence he dispatched a long telegram.
At London Bridge, Holmes wrote a telegram to his brother, which he handed to me before dispatching it.
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