Discharge

English Meaning

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

1. To relieve of a burden or of contents; unload.
2. To unload or empty (contents).
3. To release, as from confinement, care, or duty: discharge a patient; discharge a soldier.
4. To let go; empty out: a train discharging commuters.
5. To pour forth; emit: a vent discharging steam.
6. To shoot: discharge a pistol.
7. To remove from office or employment. See Synonyms at dismiss.
8. To perform the obligations or demands of (an office, duty, or task). See Synonyms at perform.
9. To comply with the terms of (a debt or promise, for example).
10. Law To acquit completely: discharged the defendant.
11. Law To set aside; annul: discharge a court order.
12. To remove (color) from cloth, as by chemical bleaching.
13. Electricity To cause the release of stored energy or electric charge from (a battery, for example).
14. Architecture To apportion (weight) evenly, as over a door.
15. Architecture To relieve (a part) of excess weight by distribution of pressure.
16. To clear the record of the loan of (a returned library book).
17. To get rid of a burden, load, or weight.
18. To go off; fire: The musket discharged loudly.
19. To pour forth, emit, or release contents.
20. To become blurred, as a color or dye; run.
21. To undergo the release of stored energy or electric charge.
22. The act of removing a load or burden.
23. The act of shooting or firing a projectile or weapon.
24. A flowing out or pouring forth; emission; secretion: a discharge of pus.
25. The amount or rate of emission or ejection.
26. Something that is discharged, released, emitted, or excreted: a watery discharge.
27. The act or an instance of removing an obligation, burden, or responsibility.
28. Fulfillment of the terms of something, such as a debt or promise.
29. Performance, as of an office or duty.
30. Dismissal or release from employment, service, care, or confinement.
31. An official document certifying such release, especially from military service.
32. Law An annulment or acquittal; dismissal, as of a court order.
33. Electricity Release of stored energy in a capacitor by the flow of current between its terminals.
34. Electricity Conversion of chemical energy to electric energy in a storage battery.
35. Electricity A flow of electricity in a dielectric, especially in a rarefied gas.
36. Electricity Elimination of net electric charge from a charged body.