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Discharge   /dɪstʃˈɑrdʒ/  /dˈɪstʃˌɑrdʒ/   Listen
Discharge

noun
1.
The sudden giving off of energy.
2.
The act of venting.  Synonym: venting.
3.
A substance that is emitted or released.  Synonym: emission.
4.
Any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body.  Synonyms: emission, expelling.
5.
Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.  Synonyms: arc, electric arc, electric discharge, spark.
6.
The pouring forth of a fluid.  Synonyms: outpouring, run.
7.
The termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart).  Synonyms: dismissal, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking.
8.
A formal written statement of relinquishment.  Synonyms: release, waiver.
9.
The act of discharging a gun.  Synonyms: firing, firing off.
verb
(past & past part. discharged; pres. part. discharging)
1.
Complete or carry out.  Synonyms: complete, dispatch.
2.
Pour forth or release.
3.
Free from obligations or duties.  Synonym: free.
4.
Remove the charge from.
5.
Go off or discharge.  Synonyms: fire, go off.
6.
Pronounce not guilty of criminal charges.  Synonyms: acquit, assoil, clear, exculpate, exonerate.
7.
Eliminate (a substance).  Synonyms: eject, exhaust, expel, release.  "The plant releases a gas"
8.
Leave or unload.  Synonyms: drop, drop off, put down, set down, unload.  "Drop off the passengers at the hotel"
9.
Cause to go off.  Synonym: fire.  "Fire a bullet"
10.
Release from military service.  Synonym: muster out.
11.
Become empty or void of its content.  Synonym: empty.



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"Discharge" Quotes from Famous Books



... there is in blasphemy a certain discharge of power which solaces the burdened heart. When an atheist, drawing his watch, gave God a quarter of an hour in which to strike him dead, it is certain that it was a quarter of an hour of wrath and of atrocious joy. It was the paroxysm of despair, ...
— The Confession of a Child of The Century • Alfred de Musset
... sickness at stomach, and a puking of bile, or a discharge of a frothy and viscid phlegm, by ...
— Select Temperance Tracts • American Tract Society
... bales of goods lay untouched on the wharves; the cheering cries with which the workmen formerly animated their labour were hushed. There was no sound of creaking cords, no rattle of heavy chains—none of the busy hum ordinarily attending the discharge of freight from a vessel, or the packing of goods and stores on board. All traffic was at an end; and this scene, usually one of the liveliest possible, was now forlorn and desolate. On the opposite shore of the river it appeared to be the ...
— Old Saint Paul's - A Tale of the Plague and the Fire • William Harrison Ainsworth
... evening there was the flare of a rocket in the public square, followed by the discharge of several Roman candles. Folks came running from all directions, to learn who might be giving ...
— Young Hunters of the Lake • Ralph Bonehill
... goings between Almayer's house and the vessel, now moored to the opposite bank, and speculation as to the feverish activity displayed by Almayer's boatmen in repairing old canoes ceased to interfere with the due discharge of domestic duties by the women of the Settlement. Even the baffled Jim-Eng left off troubling his muddled brain with secrets of trade, and relapsed by the aid of his opium pipe into a state of stupefied bliss, letting Babalatchi pursue his way past ...
— Almayer's Folly - A Story of an Eastern River • Joseph Conrad


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