ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Discharge

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /dɪsˈtʃɑːdʒ/ · Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Discharge is a verb meaning To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.

Meaning

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.

The order for Daly's attendance was discharged.

If he had / The present money to discharge the Jew.

Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions.

O most dear mistress, / The sun will set before I shall discharge / What I must strive to do.

Depending on context, synonyms include fire, terminate, axe, can, decruit, dehire.

Common opposites include charge, draft, enlist, fill up, fill, convict.

Related dictionary entries include liberation, release, expel, eject, expelling, dismissal.

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