depeach

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verb

To discharge or dispatch

OriginFrench dépêcher →
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Meanings

verbdepeach (third-person singular simple present depeaches, present participle depeaching, simple past and past participle depeached)

present singular third person depeaches · participle present depeaching · participle past depeached · past depeached

  1. obsoleteTo discharge or dispatch

    as soon as the party […] before our justices shal be depeached

    1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC

Origin

  1. Frenchdépêcher“to dispatch”
  2. Englishdepeach

From French dépêcher (“to dispatch”). See dispatch.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “depeach,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/depeach.

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