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discharge by Collins

  1. 1) verb, to release or allow to go
  2. 2) verb, to dismiss from or relieve of duty, office, employment, etc
  3. 3) verb, to fire or be fired, as a gun
  4. 4) verb, to pour forth or cause to pour forth
  5. 5) verb, to remove (the cargo) from (a boat, etc); unload
  6. 6) verb, to perform (the duties of) or meet (the demands of an office, obligation, etc)
  7. 7) verb, to relieve oneself of (a responsibility, debt, etc)
  8. 8) verb, physics a) to lose or remove electric charge b) to form an arc, spark, or corona in a gas c) to take or supply electrical current from a cell or battery
  9. 9) verb, law to release (a prisoner from custody, etc)
  10. 10) verb, to remove dye from (a fabric), as by bleaching
  11. 11) verb, (of a dye or colour) to blur or run
  12. 12) verb, architect a) to spread (weight) evenly over a supporting member b) to relieve a member of (excess weight) by distribution of pressure
  13. 13) noun, a person or thing that is discharged
  14. 14) noun, a) dismissal or release from an office, job, institution, etc b) the document certifying such release
  15. 15) noun, the fulfilment of an obligation or release from a responsibility or liability
  16. 16) noun, the act of removing a load, as of cargo
  17. 17) noun, a pouring forth of a fluid; emission
  18. 18) noun, a) the act of firing a projectile b) the volley, bullet, missile, etc, fired
  19. 19) noun, law a) a release, as of a person held under legal restraint b) an annulment, as of a court order
  20. 20) noun, physics a) the act or process of removing or losing charge or of equalizing a potential difference b) a transient or continuous conduction of electricity through a gas by the formation and movement of electrons and ions in an applied electric field
  21. 21) noun, a) the volume of fluid flowing along a pipe or a channel in unit time b) the output rate of a plant or piece of machinery, such as a pump

Collins English Electronic Dictionary - Digital Edition: 2008 © HarperCollins Publishers 2008

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achievement, perform, honour, release, liberation, clearance, pardon, acquittal, remittance, exonerate, dismissal, notice, removal, expulsion, marching orders (informal), eject, demobilize, congé, emission, flow, ooze, secretion, excrete, pus, seepage, suppuration, firing, report, shot, blast, burst, explosion, discharge, volley, salvo, detonation, fusillade, performance, execution, accomplishment, fulfil, observance, release, free, clear, liberate, pardon, acquit, exonerate, absolve, dismiss, sack (informal), fire (informal), remove, expel, discard, oust, eject, cashier, kennett (Austral. slang), jeff (Austral. slang), carry out, fulfil, accomplish, do, effect, realize, observe, implement, execute, carry through, pay, meet, clear, settle, satisfy, relieve, liquidate, release, empty, leak, emit, dispense, void, gush, ooze, exude, give off, excrete, disembogue, fire, shoot, set off, explode, let off, detonate

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