discharge

About 18.75 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.

   Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President. (1965, Amendment XXV)

2. verb To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
3. verb To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
4. verb To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
5. verb To expel or let go.
6. verb To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
7. verb To release (an accumulated charge).
8. verb To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.

Similar words

liberation release expel muster out eject expelling dismissal exonerate waiver go off

Often followed by

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Word family

dischargeable discharged dischargee dischargees discharger dischargers discharges discharging