discharge

English

/dɪsˈtʃɑːdʒ/, /ˈdɪstʃɑːdʒ/, /dɪsˈtʃɑɹdʒ/, /ˈdɪstʃɑɹdʒ/

verb
Definitions
  • 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.
  • (electricity) 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 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 give forth; to emit or send out.
  • To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
  • (transitive) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
  • (obsolete) To prohibit; to forbid.

Etymology

Borrowed from descharger derived from Old French deschargier (unload) derived from Latin discarricō prefix from English charge.

Origin

English

charge

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