discharge

IPA: dɪstʃˈɑrdʒ

The act of expelling or letting go.
(medicine) The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
(military) The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.
The process of removing the load borne by something.
The process of flowing out.
(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.
(electricity) The act of releasing an accumulated charge.
(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).
The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.

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.
(medicine) To release (an inpatient) from hospital.
(military) To release (a member of the armed forces) from service.
To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
(logic) 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, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
(obsolete, Scotland) To prohibit; to forbid.

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