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

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

See also: set, 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, draft

Encyclopedia: Discharged