1. discharge - Noun
2. discharge - Verb
To prohibit; to forbid.
To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.
To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge a bow, catapult, etc.; especially, said of firearms, -- to fire off; to shoot off; also, to relieve from a state of tension, as a Leyden jar.
To of something weighing upon or impeding over one, as a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear.
To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty; as, to discharge a prisoner.
To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled; as, to discharge a cargo.
To throw off the obligation of, as a duty or debt; to relieve one's self of, by fulfilling conditions, performing duty, trust, and the like; hence, to perform or execute, as an office, or part.
To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
To give forth; to emit or send out; as, a pipe discharges water; to let fly; to give expression to; to utter; as, to discharge a horrible oath.
To throw off or deliver a load, charge, or burden; to unload; to emit or give vent to fluid or other contents; as, the water pipe discharges freely.
The act of discharging; the act of relieving of a charge or load; removal of a load or burden; unloading; as, the discharge of a ship; discharge of a cargo.
Firing off; explosive removal of a charge; explosion; letting off; as, a discharge of arrows, of artillery.
Act of relieving of something which oppresses or weighs upon one, as an obligation, liability, debt, accusation, etc.; acquittance; as, the discharge of a debtor.
Act of removing, or getting rid of, an obligation, liability, etc.; fulfillment, as by the payment of a debt, or the performance of a trust or duty.
Release or dismissal from an office, employment, etc.; dismission; as, the discharge of a workman by his employer.
Legal release from confinement; liberation; as, the discharge of a prisoner.
The state of being discharged or relieved of a debt, obligation, office, and the like; acquittal.
That which discharges or releases from an obligation, liability, penalty, etc., as a price of ransom, a legal document.
A flowing or issuing out; emission; vent; evacuation; also, that which is discharged or emitted; as, a rapid discharge of water from the pipe.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMy duty is not affected by what others may or may not do to discharge their own. David Weber
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him. Viktor Frankl
No longer was light analogous to the discharge of a blunderbuss, but rather to the pulsating flight of birds. Banesh Hoffmann
They that on glorious ancestors enlarge, Produce their debt instead of their discharge. Edward Young
Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet. Benjamin Banneker
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune. Chanakya