discharge
Meaning of discharge
noun
- Pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection or pathology.
- The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.
- The act of expelling or letting go.
- The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.
- The process of unloading something.
- The process of flowing out.
- The act of releasing an accumulated charge.
- The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
- The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
- The volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m3/s (cubic meters per second).
- 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.
- 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 discharge a prisoner
- To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
- 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 discharge a cargo
- To give forth; to emit or send out.
A pipe discharges water.
- To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
He discharged a horrible oath.
- To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
to discharge the colour from a dyed fabric in order to form light figures on a dark background
- To prohibit; to forbid.
Information about discharge
- The plural form of discharge is: discharges.
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Hyphenation of discharge
dis-charge
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- discharge is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
discharge synonyms
Meaning venting:
Meaning emission:
Meaning spark:
Meaning outpouring:
Meaning dismissal:
dismissal, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking
Meaning release:
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Meaning dispatch:
Meaning expel:
Meaning free:
Meaning fire:
Meaning acquit:
acquit, assoil, clear, exonerate, exculpate
Meaning drop:
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Translation of discharge
- French: débit, acquitter, blanchir, absoudre, innocenter, disculper, libérer, décharger, dispenser, dégager
- Spanish: caudal, absolver, exculpar, eximir, liberar, descargar
- Italian: portata, assolvere, liberare, scaricare, svincolare
- German: freisprechen
- Portuguese: absolver
Anagrams of discharge
Words that rhyme with discharge
Labarge, barge, bumbarge, embarge, imbarge, rumbarge, Podarge, Lafarge, afterdischarge, charge, countercharge, encharge, hypercharge, intercharge, litharge, mischarge, multicharge, outcharge, overcharge, overdischarge, precharge, predischarge, recharge, redischarge, reovercharge, supercharge, surcharge, turbocharge, turbosupercharge, uncharge, undercharge, unsurcharge, alarge, enlarge, large, overlarge, preenlarge, reenlarge, superlarge, unlarge, Marge, lithomarge, marge, parge, sparge, Kearsarge, Sarge, sarge, litarge, targe
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