Sekirov Dictionary

discharge

UK /dɪsˈtʃɑːdʒ/US /dɪsˈtʃɑɹdʒ/

verb 19
noun 12
forms 5

verb19

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To expel or let go.
- Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions. — 1878
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To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
- Discharge the common sort / With pay and thanks. — 1591
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 release (an accumulated charge).
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To give forth; to emit or send out.
- A pipe discharges water.
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To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
- He discharged a horrible oath.
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To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
- Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President. (1965, Amendment XXV)
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To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
- They do discharge their shot of courtesy. — 1603
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To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
- I ran forward, discharging my pistol into the creature's body in an effort to force it to relinquish its prey; but I might as profitably have shot at the sun. — 1918
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.
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To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
- For if One Man's Faults could Discharge Another Man of his Duty,there would be no longer any Place left for the Common Offices of Society. — 1692
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To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
- The order for Daly's attendance was discharged. — 1849
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To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
- to discharge the colour from a dyed fabric in order to form light figures on a dark background
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To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
- If he had / The present money to discharge the Jew. — 1596
To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
(Scotland, no longer used) To prohibit; to forbid.

noun12

The act of expelling or letting go.
The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
The material thus released.
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 firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.
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 process of flowing out.
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The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.
- Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come / In yours and my discharge. — 1610
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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.
- After having granted discharge from liability, the general meeting of shareholders may not demand for the company compensation for matters which it had knowledge of when granting discharge.
The process of removing the load borne by something.

forms

discharged · discharging · discharges · dischargeth · dischargest

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