Dispatch and Launch

dispatch

An official report (usually sent in haste.
- synonyms: despatch, communique
The act of sending off something.
- synonyms: despatch, shipment
The property of being prompt and efficient.
- usage: "it was done with dispatch"
- synonyms: despatch, expedition, expeditiousness
Killing a person or animal.
- synonyms: despatch

Send away towards a designated goal.
- synonyms: despatch, send off
Complete or carry out.
- usage: "discharge one's duties"
- synonyms: discharge, complete
Kill intentionally and with premeditation.
- usage: "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"
- synonyms: murder, slay, hit, bump off, off, polish off, remove
Dispose of rapidly and without delay and efficiently.
- usage: "He dispatched the task he was assigned"
Kill without delay.
- usage: "the traitor was dispatched by the conspirators"

(v.t.) The act of sending a message or messenger in haste or on important business.
(v.t.) To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.
(v.t.) To get rid of by sending off; to send away hastily.
(v.t.) A message transmitted by telegraph.
(v.t.) A message dispatched or sent with speed; especially, an important official letter sent from one public officer to another; -- often used in the plural; as, a messenger has arrived with dispatches for the American minister; naval or military dispatches.
(v.t.) To rid; to free.
(v.t.) To send out of the world; to put to death.
(v.t.) To send off or away; -- particularly applied to sending off messengers, messages, letters, etc., on special business, and implying haste.
(v.i.) To make haste; to conclude an affair; to finish a matter of business.
(v.t.) Any sending away; dismissal; riddance.
(v.t.) The finishing up of a business; speedy performance, as of business; prompt execution; diligence; haste.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

launch

Set up or found.
- usage: "She set up a literacy program"
- synonyms: establish, set up, found
Propel with force.
- usage: "launch the space shuttle"; "Launch a ship"
Launch for the first time; launch on a maiden voyage.
- usage: "launch a ship"
Begin with vigor.
- usage: "He launched into a long diatribe"; "She plunged into a dangerous adventure"
- synonyms: plunge
Get going; give impetus to.
- usage: "launch a career"; "Her actions set in motion a complicated judicial process"
- synonyms: set in motion
Smoothen the surface of.
- usage: "launch plaster"

(v.i.) To send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a start to (something); to put in operation; as, to launch a son in the world; to launch a business project or enterprise.
(v.i.) To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch a ship.
(n.) The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built.
(v.i.) To strike with or as with, a lance; to pierce.
(v.i.) To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly.
(n.) The act of launching.
(n.) The boat of the largest size belonging to a ship of war; also, an open boat of any size driven by steam, naphtha, electricity or the like.
(v.i.) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning; as, to launch into the current of a stream; to launch into an argument or discussion; to launch into lavish expenditures; -- often with out.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary