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discharge
/dɪsˈtʃɑɹdʒ/
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What does discharge mean?
verb
- To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
- To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
- To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
More meanings (27)
verb
- To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
- To expel or let go.
- To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
- To release (an accumulated charge).
- To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
- To release (an inpatient) from hospital.
- To release (a member of the armed forces) from service.
- To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
- To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
- To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
- To unload a ship or another means of transport.
- To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.
- To give forth; to emit or send out.
- To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
- To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
- (obsolete) To prohibit; to forbid.
noun
- The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
- The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
- The material thus released.
- The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.
- The process of removing the load borne by something.
- The process of flowing out.
- Pus or exudate or mucus (but in modern usage not exclusively blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to pathological or hormonal changes.
- The act of releasing an accumulated charge.
- The volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m³/s (cubic meters per second).
- The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.
- Release from liability, as granted to someone having served in a position of trust, such as to the officers and governors of a corporate body.
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IPA pronunciation
/dɪsˈtʃɑɹdʒ/
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There was a flash of flame, the roar of the discharge, and an answering roar of pain and anger from the beast.
I will discharge it in either your straw-colour beard, your orange-tawny beard, your purple-in-grain beard, or your French-crown-colour beard, your perfect yellow.
More book examples (3)
They fought with pistols, and, at the first discharge, the Duke de Nemours was shot through the body, and almost instantly expired.
He himself in person, too, afforded them a most grateful spectacle, when he appeared and craved his discharge from the military service.
At this time the menses became scanty, and then supervened the discharge of bloody fluid from the left breast, as heretofore mentioned.