Results for discharge

Definitions of discharge:

part of speech: noun

Act of discharging: unloading: acquittance: dismissal: that which is discharged.

part of speech: verb intransitive

To get rid of any burden.

part of speech: noun

The act of unloading, or that which is unloaded; performance ( of duty); the getting rid of a burden; an explosion; a firing off ( of a gun); dismissal; liberation.

part of speech: verb transitive

To free from a charge: to unload or remove the cargo: to set free: to acquit: to dismiss: to fire, as a gun: to let out or emit.

part of speech: noun

DISCHARGER.

part of speech: noun

A flowing or issuing out; dismission from office or employment; the written evidence of release from debt or obligation; liberation, as from imprisonment.

part of speech: verb transitive

To unload; send away; sent out; free from any burden; free from restraint; let fly, as an arrow; fire, as a gun; perform ( a trust or duty).

part of speech: verb intransitive

To break up.

part of speech: verb

To unload, as a ship; to free from any obligation or penalty by written evidence, & c.; to throw off or out; to let fly; to explode, as powder; to fire or let off, as a gun; to absolve or acquit; to free from claim or demand of money by a written acknowledgment of payment; to perform trust or duty; to deprive of office; to dismiss; to emit or send out; to set at liberty.

Usage examples for discharge:

• However, he will not trouble you any more, as his discharge is to be immediately made out. "Newton Forster", Frederick Marryat

• A Naval Court of Inquiry was at once organized, composed of officers well qualified by rank and practical experience to discharge the duties imposed upon them. "Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom", Trumbull White

• Let be that she would never believe- that he had no proof, no evidence even- this were a pretty way of beginning to discharge his debt to her! "The Ship of Stars", Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch