Discharge

1. (v) To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear. 2. (v) To accomplish or complete, as an obligation. 3. (v) To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to. 4. (v) To expel or let go. 5. (v) To let fly, as a missile; to shoot. 6. (v) To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty. 7. (v) To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss. 8. (v) (medicine) To release (an inpatient) from hospital. 9. (v) (military) To release (a member of the armed forces) from service. 10. (n) (medicine) The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital. 11. (n) The act of expelling or letting go. 12. (v) To give forth; to emit or send out. 13. (n) The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm. 14. (v) (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge). 15. (n) (electricity) The act of releasing an accumulated charge. 16. (v) To set aside; to annul; to dismiss. 17. (v) To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled. 18. (v) (logic) To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument. 19. (v) To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling). 20. (v) To unload a ship or another means of transport. 21. (v) (transitive, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process. 22. (n) The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance. 23. (n) (law) Release from liability, as granted to someone having served in a position of trust, such as to the officers and governors of a corporate body. 24. (n) (medicine, uncountable) Pus or exudate or mucus (but in modern usage not exclusively blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to pathological or hormonal changes. 25. (n) (hydrology) The volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m³/s (cubic meters per second). 26. (n) The material thus released. 27. (n) (military) The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service. 28. (n) The process of flowing out. 29. (n) The process of removing the load borne by something. 30. (v) To let fly; to give expression to; to utter. 31. (v) (obsolete, Scotland) To prohibit; to forbid.