discharging

verb

  1. 1

    To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.

  2. 2

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

  3. 3

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

  4. 4

    To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.

  5. 5

    To expel or let go.

  6. 6

    To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.

  7. 7

    To release (an accumulated charge).

  8. 8

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

  9. 9

    To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.

    “to discharge a prisoner”
  10. 10

    To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).

  11. 11

    To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.

  12. 12

    To unload a ship or another means of transport.

  13. 13

    To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.

    “to discharge a cargo”
  14. 14

    To give forth; to emit or send out.

    “A pipe discharges water.”
  15. 15

    To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.

    “He discharged a horrible oath.”
  16. 16

    To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.

    “to discharge the colour from a dyed fabric in order to form light figures on a dark background”
  17. 17

    To prohibit; to forbid.

noun

  1. 1

    The act or process by which something is discharged.

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