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

1. The termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
   - dismissal, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking, heave-ho [informal], chuck [Brit, informal], the axe [informal], severance, the boot [informal], the chop [Brit, informal]
    
2. The act of releasing gas, liquid etc.
    
3. A substance that is emitted or released
   - emission
    
4. Any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body
   "the discharge of pus";
   - emission, expelling
    
5. A formal written statement of relinquishment
   - release, waiver
    
6. The act of discharging a gun
   - firing, firing off
    
7. Release from hospital, the police, etc.
    
8. The pouring forth of a fluid
   - outpouring, run
    
9. The sudden giving off of energy
    
10. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
    - spark, arc, electric arc, electric discharge

Derived forms: discharged, discharges, discharging

See also: set

Type of: accomplish, action, activity, bodily function, bodily process, body process, carry out, carry through, change state, conclusion, deliver, distribute, electrical conduction, emanation, emission, ending, execute, flow, flowing, fulfil [Brit, Cdn], fulfill [N. Amer], happening, judge, label, let go, let go of, material, natural event, occurrence, occurrent, pronounce, release, relinquish, relinquishing, relinquishment, remove, shooting, shot, spread, stuff, take, take away, termination, turn, withdraw

Antonym: charge, draft

Encyclopedia: Discharge