discharging

1. To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
2. To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
3. To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
4. To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
5. To expel or let go.
6. To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
7. To release (an accumulated charge).
8. To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
9. To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.

   to discharge a prisoner

10. To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
11. To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
12. To unload a ship or another means of transport.
13. 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

14. To give forth; to emit or send out.

    A pipe discharges water.

15. To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.

    He discharged a horrible oath.

16. 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

17. To prohibit; to forbid.

noun

The act or process by which something is discharged.