How to pronounce “discharge”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
• To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
• To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
• To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
• To expel or let go.
• To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
• (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).
• To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
• To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
• To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
• (logic) To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
• 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.
• To give forth; to emit or send out.
• To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
• (transitive, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
• (obsolete, Scotland) To prohibit; to forbid.
• [Noun]
• The act of expelling or letting go.
• The material thus released.
• The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.
• The process of removing the load borne by something.
• The process of flowing out.
• (electricity) The act of releasing an accumulated charge.
• (hydrology) 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 act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.
• (law) 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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