discharge

Meaning

Verb

1. To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
2. To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
3. To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
4. To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
5. To expel or let go.
6. To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
7. To release (an accumulated charge).
8. To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
9. To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
10. To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
11. To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
12. To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
13. To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
14. To unload a ship or another means of transport.
15. To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.
16. To give forth; to emit or send out.
17. To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
18. (transitive) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
19. (Scotland, obsolete) To prohibit; to forbid.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of expelling or letting go.
2. (countable, uncountable) The act of expelling or letting go.
3. (countable, uncountable) The material thus released.
4. (countable, uncountable) The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.
5. (countable, uncountable) The process of removing the load borne by something.
6. (countable, uncountable) The process of flowing out.
7. (uncountable) The process of flowing out.
8. (countable, uncountable) The act of releasing an accumulated charge.
9. (countable, uncountable) The volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m³/s (cubic meters per second).
10. (countable, uncountable) The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.
11. (countable, uncountable) 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.

Synonyms

dismiss

fire

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dismissal

release

sack

unload

emit

emission

expel

remove

shoot

acquit

firing

empty

throw

eject

perform

execute

lay off

accomplish

drop

free

🆓

liberation

secretion

excretion

let go

go off

liberate

drain

clear

dispatch

fire off

pay

💸

performance

deliver

launch

fulfilment

complete

run

exonerate

exhaust

cast

disburden

fulfil

oust

sending away

leave

issue

ejection

kick out

Translations

descargar

scaricare

Entlassung

décharger

entlassen

descarga

descarregar

scarica

despedir

descarga

décharge

entladen

ontslaan

renvoi

licencier

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɪsˈtʃɑːdʒ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: dischargen

In summary

From Middle English dischargen, from Old French deschargier (“to unload”), from Late Latin discarricāre (“unload”). By surface analysis, dis- + charge.