discharge
English
/dɪsˈtʃɑːdʒ/, /ˈdɪstʃɑːdʒ/, /dɪsˈtʃɑɹdʒ/, /ˈdɪstʃɑɹdʒ/
verb
Definitions
- To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
- To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
- To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
- To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
- To expel or let go.
- To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
- (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).
- To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
- To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
- To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
- To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
- To unload a ship or another means of transport.
- To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.
- To give forth; to emit or send out.
- To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
- (transitive) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
- (obsolete) To prohibit; to forbid.
Etymology
Borrowed from descharger derived from Old French deschargier (unload) derived from Latin discarricō prefix from English charge.
Origin
English
charge
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- afterdischarge English
- charge English
- charge-hand English
- chargeable English
- chargeback English
- chargecard English
- chargee English
- chargeful English
- chargehand English
- chargehouse English
- chargeless English
- chargeman English
- chargemaster English
- chargeous English
- chargepoint English
- charger English
- chargesheet English
- chargeship English
- chargest English
- chargeth English
- chargino English
- chargon English
- countercharge English
- dischargeable English
- dischargee English
- dischargement English
- discharger English
- dischargest English
- dischargeth English
- forecharge English
- isocharge English
- lathicharge English
- microcharge English
- midcharge English
- mischarge English
- multicharge English
- nondischargeable English
- outcharge English
- overcharge English
- postdischarge English
- precharge English
- predischarge English
- rentcharge English
- supercharge English
- surcharge English
- turbocharge English
- uncharge English
- undercharge English
- upcharge English
- carrus Latin
- discarricāre Latin
- discarricō Latin
- décharger French
- チャージ Japanese
- chargen Middle English
- chargier Old French
- deschargier Old French
- ชาร์จ Thai
- shkarkoj Albanian
- discarcu Aromanian
- descharger xno
- charge
- chargee
- charger
- chargon
- uncharge
- chargest
- chargino
- chargeth
- upcharge
- surcharge
- precharge
- mischarge
- outcharge
- chargeman
- isocharge
- chargeful
- midcharge
- chargeous
- chargecard
- discharger
- rentcharge
- chargeless
- chargeship
- forecharge
- overcharge
- chargeable
- dischargee
- chargehand
- chargeback
- supercharge
- microcharge
- chargesheet
- dischargeth
- dischargest
- chargehouse
- lathicharge
- charge-hand
- multicharge
- turbocharge
- chargepoint
- undercharge
- predischarge
- chargemaster
- dischargeable
- dischargement
- countercharge
- postdischarge
- afterdischarge
- nondischargeable