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v., -charged, -charg·ing, -charg·es.

v.tr.

1. 1. To relieve of a burden or of contents; unload.
   2. To unload or empty (contents).
2. 1. To release, as from confinement, care, or duty: discharge a patient; discharge a soldier.
   2. To let go; empty out: a train discharging commuters.
   3. To pour forth; emit: a vent discharging steam.
   4. To shoot: discharge a pistol.
3. To remove from office or employment. See synonyms at dismiss.
4. To perform the obligations or demands of (an office, duty, or task). See synonyms at perform.
5. To comply with the terms of (a debt or promise, for example).
6. Law.
   1. To acquit completely: discharged the defendant.
   2. To set aside; annul: discharge a court order.
7. To remove (color) from cloth, as by chemical bleaching.
8. Electricity. To cause the release of stored energy or electric charge from (a battery, for example).
9. Architecture.
   1. To apportion (weight) evenly, as over a door.
   2. To relieve (a part) of excess weight by distribution of pressure.
10. To clear the record of the loan of (a returned library book).

v.intr.

1. To get rid of a burden, load, or weight.
2. 1. To go off; fire: The musket discharged loudly.
   2. To pour forth, emit, or release contents.
   3. To become blurred, as a color or dye; run.
3. To undergo the release of stored energy or electric charge.

n. (dĭs'chärj', dĭs-chärj')

1. The act of removing a load or burden.
2. The act of shooting or firing a projectile or weapon.
3. 1. A flowing out or pouring forth; emission; secretion: a discharge of pus.
   2. The amount or rate of emission or ejection.
   3. Something that is discharged, released, emitted, or excreted: a watery discharge.
4. The act or an instance of removing an obligation, burden, or responsibility.
5. 1. Fulfillment of the terms of something, such as a debt or promise.
   2. Performance, as of an office or duty.
6. 1. Dismissal or release from employment, service, care, or confinement.
   2. An official document certifying such release, especially from military service.
7. Law. An annulment or acquittal; dismissal, as of a court order.
8. Electricity.
   1. Release of stored energy in a capacitor by the flow of current between its terminals.
   2. Conversion of chemical energy to electric energy in a storage battery.
   3. A flow of electricity in a dielectric, especially in a rarefied gas.
   4. Elimination of net electric charge from a charged body.

[Middle English dischargen, from Old French deschargier, from Late Latin discarricāre : Latin dis-, dis- + Late Latin carricāre, to load; see charge.]

dischargeable dis·charge'a·ble adj.
dischargee dis'charg·ee' n.
discharger dis·charg'er n.

1. To satisfy or dismiss the obligations of contract or debt.

2. Method by which a legal Duty is extinguished.

3. Release from employment. See also Performance; Rescission.

verb

1. To remove the cargo or load from: disburden, dump, unlade, unload. See put in/take out.
2. To set at liberty: emancipate, free, liberate, loose, manumit, release. Slang spring. Idioms: let loose. See free/unfree.
3. To release from military duty: demobilize, muster out, separate. See free/unfree, keep/release.
4. To free from an obligation or duty: absolve, dispense, excuse, exempt, let off, relieve, spare. See free/unfree.
5. To pass or pour out: empty, flow, issue. See enter/exit.
6. To end the employment or service of: cashier, dismiss, drop, release, terminate. Informal ax, fire, pink-slip. Slang boot¹, bounce, can, sack¹. Idioms: give someone his or her walking papers, give someone the ax, give someone the gate, give someone the pink slip, let go, show someone the door. See keep/release.
7. To carry out the functions, requirements, or terms of: do, execute, exercise, fulfill, implement, keep, perform. Idioms: live up to. See do/not do.
8. To set right by giving what is due: clear, liquidate, pay (off or up), satisfy, settle, square. See pay/owe.

noun

1. The act of beginning and carrying through to completion: effectuation, execution, performance, prosecution. See do/not do.
2. The act of dismissing or the condition of being dismissed from employment: dismissal, termination. Informal ax. Slang boot¹, bounce, sack¹. See keep/release.

n

Definition: detonation
Antonyms: loading

n

Definition: dismissal from responsibility
Antonyms: assignment, delegation, employment, engagement, hiring

n

Definition: payment of debt
Antonyms: indebtedness, owing

n

Definition: pouring forth, unloading
Antonyms: damming

n

Definition: setting free
Antonyms: hold, imprisonment, incarceration, keep, retention

v

Definition: detonate weapon
Antonyms: load

v

Definition: dismiss from responsibility
Antonyms: assign, delegate, employ, engage, hire

v

Definition: pay, settle debt
Antonyms: owe

v

Definition: pour forth; unload
Antonyms: dam, load

v

Definition: set free
Antonyms: detain, hold, imprison, keep

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v

1. to release; liberate; annul; unburden. To cancel a contract; to make an agreement or contract null and void. n 2. Any substance which exudes from an opening.

v. 1. (often be discharged) tell (someone) officially that they can or must leave, in particular:

a. send (a patient) out of the hospital after being judged fit to go home.

b. dismiss or release (someone) from a job, especially from service in the armed forces or police.

c. release (someone) from the custody or restraint of the law

2. (of a person) fire (a gun or missile): when you shoot you can discharge as many barrels as you wish.

3. (of a firearm) be fired: there was a dull thud as the gun discharged.

4. unload (cargo or passengers) from a ship: ninety ships were waiting to discharge.

n. ˈdisܖchärj

1. the action of discharging someone from a hospital or from a job: his discharge from the hospital | he received a dishonorable discharge.

2. an act of releasing someone from the custody or restraint of the law: thirty days in jail and one year probation.

3. the action of firing a gun or missile: a police permit for discharge of an air gun | sounds like discharges of artillery.

4. the action of unloading a ship of its cargo or passengers. freight for discharge.

5. a written certificate of a release, etc.

dischargeable adj.

See the Introduction, Abbreviations and Pronunciation for further details.

The quantity of water flowing through any cross-section of a stream or river in unit time. Discharge (Q) is usually measured in cubic metres per second (cumecs) and can be calculated as A × V where A is the cross-sectional area of the channel and V is the mean velocity.

An economic term borrowed from a physicalist epistemological model, "discharge" was used by Sigmund Freud in his theorization of how the psychic apparatus deals with excitation. The notion of discharge thus refers to an outward release of the energy produced in the psychic apparatus by excitations, whether these are external or internal in origin.

By virtue of its economic orientation, this notion is part of the metapsychological approach and speaks to the quantitative dimension in Freud's model. Freud discussed discharge when he described the pleasure/unpleasure principle: the pleasure of discharge, the unpleasure of retention. We should recall that according to Freud, the source of the instinct is a state of excitation in the body and its aim is to eliminate this excitation. Obviously, the concept of discharge implies as a corollary the notion of tension, or charge. Pleasure and unpleasure probably depend less upon an exact level of tension than upon the rhythm of variation in tension. The principle of pleasure/unpleasure is thus considered a particular case of Gustav Fechner's "tendency toward stability," that "tendency" becoming in this instance the "principle of consistency."

Consistency is said to be achieved by means of the discharge of the energy already present, but also by the avoidance of factors that might increase the quantity of excitation. The principle of consistency is indeed basic to Freud's economic theory and is closely linked with the pleasure principle. The psychic apparatus, in this view, also tends to cancel out excitations or reduce them to a minimum, and Freud, following Barbara Low, called this the "Nirvana principle," which works in tandem with the principle of inertia. It is in this realm that the forces of Thanatos lurk; moroever, it was in Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920g), where the death instinct is introduced, that Freud explicitly formulated the principle of consistency and related it to the Nirvana principle.

Discharge can be total or partial; it can be appropriate or it can contribute to psychopathological, even psychodramatic disorders. The notion thus appears in Freud's discussions of "abreaction" or "acting-out," when there is insufficient regulation of excitation by the psychic apparatus. Another possibility is discharge into the body, which suggests the mysterious leap from the psychic to the somatic, the notion of somatic compliance, and the phenomenon of conversion. Freud also mentioned the pathogenic role of defective discharge in considering the model of actual neurosis, and in presenting the hypothesis of the damming up of the libido to explain the phenomenon of hypochondria. Still in the context of discharge, the soma as an internal safety-valve has been viewed as a way of handling tensions that cannot be worked through or that are too massive—in short, a kind of somatic "acting-in."

Bibliography

Freud, Sigmund. (1914c). On narcissism: an introduction. SE, 14, 67-102.

——. (1920g). Beyond the pleasure principle. SE, 18, 1-64.

——. (1926d [1925]). Inhibitions, symptoms and anxiety. SE, 20, 75-172.

Marty, Pierre, et al. (1968) Le cas Dora et le point de vue psychosomatique. Revue française de psychanalyse, 32,4.

—ALAIN FINE

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To liberate or free; to terminate or extinguish. A discharge is the act or instrument by which a contract or agreement is ended. A mortgage is discharged if it has been carried out to the full extent originally contemplated or terminated prior to total execution.

Discharge also means to release, as from legal confinement in prison or the military service, or from some legal obligation such as jury duty, or the payment of debts by a person who is bankrupt. The document that indicates that an individual has been legally released from the military service is called a discharge.

The performance of a duty discharges it. An attorney may speak of discharging a legal obligation.

1. a setting free, or liberation.
2. material or force set free.
3. an excretion or substance evacuated.

• ocular d. — a sign of conjunctivitis; green or yellow discharge is indicative of cellular content and inflammatory response.

Release of energy stored in either a battery or a capacitor.

IN BRIEF: n. - A formal written statement of relinquishment; The termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart); The act of venting; The sudden giving off of energy; The pouring forth of a fluid;

The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them. — Walter S. Robertson

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Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - løslade, udskrive, hjemsende, affyre, afsondre, afsende, udføre, indfri, ophæve, aflade, lænse, losse
v. intr. - løbe ud, tømme sig
n. - hjemsendelse, udskrivning, løsladelse, frifindelse, indfrielse, udførelse, affyring, udslip, udflåd, ilandsætning

idioms:

• discharge into    løbe ud i

Nederlands (Dutch)
afscheiden, ontslaan, wegsturen, ontladen, schot, ontslag, nietigverklaring, afvoer

Français (French)
v. tr. - déverser, (Élec) décharger, (Méd) suppurer, renvoyer, congédier, (Mil) rendre à la vie civile, réformer, (Jur) congédier (un jury), relaxer (un accusé), réhabiliter (une faillite), (Méd) autoriser la sortie d'un patient, décharger (un fusil), décocher (une flèche), (Fin) acquitter, régler, s'acquitter (d'un devoir), remplir (une fonction)
v. intr. - suinter
n. - déchargement, (Élec) décharge, décharge (d'une arme), écoulement, accomplissement, exécution, exercice, acquittement, renvoi (d'un employé), libération, élargissement, mise en liberté, renvoi (d'un patient), (Méd) suintement, pertes (vaginales), suppuration

idioms:

• discharge into    émettre (des gaz) dans, déverser (des égouts) dans, décharger (des déchets) dans

Deutsch (German)
v. - entlassen, freisprechen, tilgen, ausladen, entladen, abschießen, absondern
n. - Entlassung, Freispruch, Abzahlung, Ausfluß, Entladung, Abfeuern

idioms:

• discharge into    münden in

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - απαλλάσσω (καθηκόντων κ.λπ.), ξεφορτώνω, εξοφλώ, πυροβολώ, απολύω, εκκενώνω, αδειάζω (όπλο κ.λπ.), χύνομαι, εκβάλλω, εκπληρώνω, εκτελώ, (ιατρ.) χορηγώ εξιτήριο
n. - απαλλαγή, εκβολή, εκφόρτωση, απόλυση, άδειασμα, εκκένωση, εκπυρσοκρότηση, εκπλήρωση, εκροή, αποστρατεία, αποστράτευση, (οικον.) εξόφληση, (φυσιολ.) (απ)έκκριση, απολυτήριο ή εξιτήριο, (ηλεκτρ.) (ηλεκτρική) εκκένωση

idioms:

• discharge into    (εκ)χύνομαι ή εκβάλλω σε
• discharging facility    μονάδα εξόδου ασθενών

Italiano (Italian)
licenziare, congedare, ammortizzare, scaricare, emettere, secernere, colpo, dimissioni, pagamento, discarica, scarico, liberazione, scarica

idioms:

• discharge into    sboccare in

Português (Portuguese)
v. - descarregar, liberar, demitir
n. - descarga (m), alívio (m), quitação (f)

idioms:

• discharge into    descarregar em
• discharging facility    instalações (m pl) para descarga

Русский (Russian)
испускать, разгружать, снимать с должности, удалять, выпуск, разгрузка, увольнение, разряд

idioms:

• discharge into    сливать в
• discharging facility    разгрузочная станция

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - despedir, absolver, dar de alta, saldar, descargar, lanzar, disparar, cancelar, desteñir, ejecutar, liberar, soltar, dejar salir
v. intr. - liberarse, entregar, dispararse, teñirse, descargarse
n. - descarga, disparo, despido, destitución, pago, cancelación, desagüe, drenaje, poner en libertad, envío, (leg) exoneración, (leg) anulación, certificado de liberación

idioms:

• discharge into    desembocar en, desaguar en

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - lasta av, tömma ut, betala
n. - uttömning, befrielse, ansvarsfrihet, utskrivning, med. flytning

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
卸下, 解雇, 放出, 卸货, 流注, 放电, 流出

idioms:

• discharge into    排入..., 流入...

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 卸下, 解雇, 放出
v. intr. - 卸貨, 流注
n. - 卸貨, 放電, 流出

idioms:

• discharge into    排入..., 流入...

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 짐을 내리다, (총 등을) 발포하다, 내뱉다, 전역 시키다, 파면하다, (의무 등을) 실행하다
v. intr. - (물이) 흘러 들어가다, 짐을 내리다, (색깔이) 바래다, (총이) 발포되다
n. - 짐 내리기, 발포, 책임 면제, 파면, 표백제

idioms:

• discharge into    ~로 흘러 들다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 降ろす, から荷揚げする, 放出する, 発射する, 放電する, 解放する, 除隊させる, 色抜きする, 支持部に分散させる, 果たす, 履行する, 荷降ろしする, うみを出す, 散る, 解放される
n. - 荷揚げ, 発射, 発砲, 放電, 放出, 解放, 免除, 除隊, 色抜き, 遂行, 履行, 解任

idioms:

• discharge into    注ぐ

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يسرح ( من خدمه أو من مستشفى), يؤدي واجبا, يطلق سراحا, يدفع دينا, يطلق النار من شئ ( مسدس, مثلا) (الاسم) إطلاق سراح, تسريح ( من خدمه أو مستشفى), تحرير من دين, المادة المصرفه أو المفرزة‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮פלט, הוציא, ירה, שלח, פיטר, שיחרר, ביצע (תפקיד וכו')‬
v. intr. - ‮פלט, ירה, נפטר ממטען, פרק מטען, זרם‬
n. - ‮פריקה, פליטה, שחרור, סילוק חוב, ירייה, זרימה של חשמל באוויר, נוזל או חומר שנפלט, הפיכה של אנרגיה כימית בתא לחשמלית‬

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