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1. Having lost your job
   - dismissed, fired, laid-off, pink-slipped

1. Carry out, fulfil
   "discharge one's duties"
   - dispatch, complete
    
2. Pour forth or release
   "discharge liquids"
    
3. Release from obligations or duties
   - free
    
4. Remove the charge from
    
5. Go off or discharge
   "The gun discharged"
   - fire, go off
    
6. Pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
   "The suspect was discharged of the murder charges"
   - acquit, assoil, clear, exonerate, exculpate
    
7. Eliminate (a substance)
   "combustion products are discharged in the engine"
   - exhaust, expel, eject, release
    
8. Leave or unload
   - drop, drop off, set down, put down, unload
    
9. Cause to go off
   "discharge a gun"
   - fire
    
10. Release from military service
    - muster out
     
11. Become empty or void of its content
    - empty
     
12. (medicine) allow a patient to leave hospital

See also: unemployed

Type of: accomplish, action, carry out, carry through, change state, deliver, distribute, execute, fulfil [Brit, Cdn], fulfill [N. Amer], judge, label, let go, let go of, pronounce, release, relinquish, remove, spread, take, take away, turn, withdraw

Antonym: charge, enlist

Encyclopedia: Discharge