despachar

From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], borrowed from Old French despechier (compare modern dépêcher).

despachar (first-person singular present despacho, first-person singular preterite despachei, past participle despachado)

1. to dispatch, despatch
2. to expedite

For quotations using this term, see Citations:despachar.

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”).

• IPA^(key): /despaˈt͡ʃaɾ/ [d̪es.paˈt͡ʃaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: des‧pa‧char

despachar (first-person singular present despacho, first-person singular preterite despaché, past participle despachado)

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

   Despacharon los estudiantes ― They dismissed the students

5. (transitive) to finish off
6. (transitive) to kill off

• “despachar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16