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Past tense of dispatch

regular verb

The past tense of dispatch is dispatched. The past participle is also dispatched.

Forms of dispatch

Base form (V1)dispatch /dɪˈspæt͡ʃ/
Past tense (V2)dispatched /dɪˈspæt͡ʃt/
Past participle (V3)dispatched /dɪˈspæt͡ʃt/
Present participledispatching
Third person singulardispatches

Dispatched in a sentence

  • When they didn't return, the STG dispatched ten of its brightest operators with broad discretionary powers.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Salarians: League of One Codex entry
  • Scores of foreign journalists have been dispatched to Seoul to report on the growing tensions between the two Koreas and the possibility of war.2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in New York Times
  • The crime lord dispatched his favorite hatchet man to make sure the witness would not testify.From the entry hatchet man
  • Frequently members of the small police detail dispatched to the scene joined in.2022, Gary Gerstle, chapter 7, in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order […] , New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, Part II. The…. From the entry detail
  • German authorities dispatched mobile killing units to follow the regular military into Soviet territory.2016, Doris L. Bergen, “Expansion and Systematization”, in War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust, page 195. From the entry Einsatzgruppen

Meaning of dispatch

  1. verb To send (a shipment) with promptness.
  2. verb To send (a person) away hastily.
  3. verb To send (an important official message) promptly, by means of a diplomat or military officer.

Full definition of dispatch

Questions about the past tense of dispatch

What is the past tense of dispatch?
The past tense of dispatch is dispatched.
What is the past participle of dispatch?
The past participle of dispatch is dispatched.
Is dispatch a regular or irregular verb?
Dispatch is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dispatch (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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