discharge

To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.

• Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House

To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.

• But in deede, the ſecret cauſe that brought Ageſilaus to conſent vnto this practiſe, was the greatnes of his dette which he ought, of the which he hoped to be diſcharged by chaunging of the ſtate and common wealth.
• For if One Man's Faults could Discharge Another Man of his Duty,there would be no longer any Place left for the Common Offices of Society.

To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.

• If he had / The present money to discharge the Jew.

To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.

• The order for Daly's attendance was discharged.

To expel or let go.

• Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions.

To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.

• They do discharge their shot of courtesy.
• Mrs Partridge, upon this, immediately fell into a fury, and discharged the trencher on which she was eating, at the head of poor Jenny […]

To release (an accumulated charge).

• GWR plans to use it on the Greenford branch in west London, making use of a fast charger at West Ealing that will charge the batteries in just three and a half minutes. This fast charger is essentially a battery installed at the lineside wh

To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.

• Discharge the common sort / With pay and thanks.
• Grindal […] was discharged the government of his see.

To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.; To release (an inpatient) from hospital.

To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.; To release (a member of the armed forces) from service.

The act of expelling or letting go.; The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.countableuncountable

• care transition after discharge

The act of expelling or letting go.; The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.countableuncountable

• career transition after discharge

The material thus released.countableuncountable

• Near-synonyms: effluent, effluence (sometimes synonymous)
• a mucopurulent vaginal discharge

The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.countableuncountable

• negligent discharge

The process of removing the load borne by something.countableuncountable

The process of flowing out.countableuncountable

The process of flowing out.; Pus or exudate or mucus (but in modern usage not exclusively blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to pathological or hormonal changes.uncountable

• Near-synonyms: effluent, effluence (sometimes synonymous)

The act of releasing an accumulated charge.countableuncountable

The volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m³/s (cubic meters per second).countableuncountable

The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.countableuncountable

• Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come / In yours and my discharge.
• She [the Queen] was assisted in the discharge of her solemn functions by fourteen sacred women, one for each of the altars of Dionysus.