discharge

discharge is a 9-letter English word with 42 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 17 · 42 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.
2. transitive verb. To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge a bow, catapult, etc.; especially, said of firearms, -- to fire off; to shoot off; also, to relieve from a state of tension, as a Leyden jar.
3. transitive verb. To of something weighing upon or impeding over one, as a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear.
4. transitive verb. To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
5. transitive verb. To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty; as, to discharge a prisoner.
6. transitive verb. To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled; as, to discharge a cargo.
7. transitive verb. To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
8. transitive verb. To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
9. transitive verb. To throw off the obligation of, as a duty or debt; to relieve one's self of, by fulfilling conditions, performing duty, trust, and the like; hence, to perform or execute, as an office, or part.
10. transitive verb. To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
11. transitive verb. To give forth; to emit or send out; as, a pipe discharges water; to let fly; to give expression to; to utter; as, to discharge a horrible oath.
12. transitive verb. To prohibit; to forbid.
13. intransitive verb. To throw off or deliver a load, charge, or burden; to unload; to emit or give vent to fluid or other contents; as, the water pipe discharges freely.
14. transitive verb. The act of discharging; the act of relieving of a charge or load; removal of a load or burden; unloading; as, the discharge of a ship; discharge of a cargo.
15. transitive verb. Firing off; explosive removal of a charge; explosion; letting off; as, a discharge of arrows, of artillery.
16. transitive verb. Act of relieving of something which oppresses or weighs upon one, as an obligation, liability, debt, accusation, etc.; acquittance; as, the discharge of a debtor.
17. transitive verb. Act of removing, or getting rid of, an obligation, liability, etc.; fulfillment, as by the payment of a debt, or the performance of a trust or duty.
18. transitive verb. Release or dismissal from an office, employment, etc.; dismission; as, the discharge of a workman by his employer.
19. transitive verb. Legal release from confinement; liberation; as, the discharge of a prisoner.
20. transitive verb. The state of being discharged or relieved of a debt, obligation, office, and the like; acquittal.
21. transitive verb. That which discharges or releases from an obligation, liability, penalty, etc., as a price of ransom, a legal document.
22. transitive verb. A flowing or issuing out; emission; vent; evacuation; also, that which is discharged or emitted; as, a rapid discharge of water from the pipe.
23. noun. the act of discharging a gun

    Synonyms: firing

24. noun. a formal written statement of relinquishment

    Synonyms: release, waiver

25. noun. the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)

    Synonyms: dismissal, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking

26. noun. the act of venting

    Synonyms: venting

27. noun. the sudden giving off of energy
28. noun. the pouring forth of a fluid

    Synonyms: outpouring, run

29. noun. electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field

    Synonyms: arc, spark

30. noun. any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body

    "the discharge of pus"

    Synonyms: emission, expelling

31. noun. a substance that is emitted or released

    Synonyms: emission

32. verb. eliminate (a substance)

    "combustion products are exhausted in the engine"

    "the plant releases a gas"

    Synonyms: eject, exhaust, expel, release

33. verb. become empty or void of its content

    "The room emptied"

    Synonyms: empty

34. verb. pronounce not guilty of criminal charges

    "The suspect was cleared of the murder charges"

    Synonyms: acquit, assoil, clear, exculpate, exonerate

35. verb. release from military service
36. verb. cause to go off

    "fire a gun"

    "fire a bullet"

    Synonyms: fire

37. verb. go off or discharge

    "The gun fired"

    Synonyms: fire

38. verb. pour forth or release

    "discharge liquids"

39. verb. remove the charge from
40. verb. leave or unload

    "unload the cargo"

    "drop off the passengers at the hotel"

    Synonyms: drop, unload

41. verb. free from obligations or duties

    Synonyms: free

42. verb. complete or carry out

    "discharge one's duties"

    Synonyms: complete, dispatch

Synonyms

firing, release, waiver, dismissal, dismission, liberation, sack, sacking, venting, outpouring, run, arc, spark, emission, expelling, eject, exhaust, expel, empty, acquit, assoil, clear, exculpate, exonerate

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in discharge:

scraighed

Common word forms

discharged, discharger, discharges, dischargees, discharging, dischargeable

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