despachar

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to complete, conclude
  2. (transitive) to send or ship
  3. (transitive) to attend to, serve (a client)
  4. (transitive) to dismiss
  5. (transitive) to finish off
  6. (transitive) to kill off

Frequency

41k
Hyphenated as
des‧pa‧char
Pronounced as (IPA)
/despaˈt͡ʃaɾ/
Etymology

In summary

Borrowed from Provençal despachar, from Old French despeechier (“to remove impediments”) (compare modern French dépêcher), from des- + empeechier (“to obstruct, to impede”), from Late Latin impedicāre (“to impede”), from pedica (“shackle”).

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