Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive 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.
- 2transitive 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.
- 3transitive verb
To of something weighing upon or impeding over one, as a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear.
- 4transitive verb
To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
- 5transitive verb
To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty; as, to discharge a prisoner.
- 6transitive 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.
- 7transitive verb
To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
- 8transitive verb
To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
- 9transitive 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.
- 10transitive verb
To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
- 11transitive 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.
- 12transitive verb
To prohibit; to forbid.
- 13intransitive 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.
- 14transitive 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.
- 15transitive verb
Firing off; explosive removal of a charge; explosion; letting off; as, a discharge of arrows, of artillery.
- 16transitive 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.
- 17transitive 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.
- 18transitive verb
Release or dismissal from an office, employment, etc.; dismission; as, the discharge of a workman by his employer.
- 19transitive verb
Legal release from confinement; liberation; as, the discharge of a prisoner.
- 20transitive verb
The state of being discharged or relieved of a debt, obligation, office, and the like; acquittal.
- 21transitive verb
That which discharges or releases from an obligation, liability, penalty, etc., as a price of ransom, a legal document.
- 22transitive 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.
- 23noun
the act of discharging a gun
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- 24noun
a formal written statement of relinquishment
- 25noun
the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- 26noun
the act of venting
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- 27noun
the sudden giving off of energy
- 28noun
the pouring forth of a fluid
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- 29noun
electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
- 30noun
any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body
"the discharge of pus"
- 31noun
a substance that is emitted or released
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- 32verb
eliminate (a substance)
"combustion products are exhausted in the engine"
"the plant releases a gas"
- 33verb
become empty or void of its content
"The room emptied"
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- 34verb
pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
"The suspect was cleared of the murder charges"
- 35verb
release from military service
- 36verb
cause to go off
"fire a gun"
"fire a bullet"
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- 37verb
go off or discharge
"The gun fired"
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- 38verb
pour forth or release
"discharge liquids"
- 39verb
remove the charge from
- 40verb
leave or unload
"unload the cargo"
"drop off the passengers at the hotel"
- 41verb
free from obligations or duties
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- 42verb
complete or carry out
"discharge one's duties"
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