All dispatch antonyms
dis·patch
D d noun dispatch
- delay — If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.
- rest — a support for a lance; lance rest.
- slowness — moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.
- retention — the act of retaining.
- speech — the faculty or power of speaking; oral communication; ability to express one's thoughts and emotions by speech sounds and gesture: Losing her speech made her feel isolated from humanity.
- patch — Alexander McCarrell [muh-kar-uh l] /məˈkær əl/ (Show IPA), 1889–1945, U.S. World War II general.
verb dispatch
- hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
- impede — to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder.
- retard — to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.
- slow — moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.
- hold back — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
- prohibit — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
- hold — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- retain — to keep possession of.
- receive — to take into one's possession (something offered or delivered): to receive many gifts.
- halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
- unsettle — to alter from a settled state; cause to be no longer firmly fixed or established; render unstable; disturb: Violence unsettled the government.
- stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- create — To create something means to cause it to happen or exist.
- bear — If you bear something somewhere, you carry it there or take it there.
- save — to rescue from danger or possible harm, injury, or loss: to save someone from drowning.