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discharge

The English word “discharge” has 30 meanings listed here.

  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 release (an inpatient) from hospital.
  10. To release (a member of the armed forces) from service.
  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. To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
  19. To prohibit; to forbid.
  20. The act of expelling or letting go.
  21. The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
  22. The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
  23. The material thus released.
  24. The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.
  25. The process of removing the load borne by something.
  26. The process of flowing out.
  27. Pus or exudate or mucus (but in modern usage not exclusively blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to pathological or hormonal changes.
  28. The act of releasing an accumulated charge.
  29. The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.
  30. 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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