discharge🔊

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.

To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.

To expel or let go.

To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.

(electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).

To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss. +

(medicine) To release (an inpatient) from hospital.

(military) 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).

(logic) 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.

(textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.

(obsolete, Scotland) To prohibit; to forbid.

The act of expelling or letting go.

(medicine) The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.

(military) The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.

The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm. +

The process of removing the load borne by something. +

The process of flowing out.

(medicine) Pus or exudate or mucus (but in modern usage not exclusively blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to pathological or hormonal changes.

(electricity) The act of releasing an accumulated charge.

(hydrology) 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.