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discharge

[dis-chahrj, dis-chahrj, dis-chahrj] / dɪsˈtʃɑrdʒ, ˈdɪs tʃɑrdʒ, dɪsˈtʃɑrdʒ /


NOUN
detonation, especially of a weapon
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NOUN
act or instance of unloading
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STRONGEST
STRONG
disburdening emptying unburdening unlading
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NOUN
full payment of debt
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VERB
detonate a weapon
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VERB
fully pay or settle debt
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VERB
dismiss a legal or legislative process
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Constance said it was important to note that pressures on A&E wards are affected by "delayed discharge of patients into social care settings".

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

The message said her servicer would receive a file once a month with accounts to wipe out and that her servicer would notify her when her loan discharge was processed, according to the complaint.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

Borrowers were told that they didn’t need to take any action to receive their discharge and that they didn’t need to resume making payments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Only around 36 percent saw normal flows, while an equal percentage saw below-normal discharge conditions and 21 percent were above normal, the report found.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

For a minute I thought the walls had begun to discharge the moisture that must saturate them, but then I saw the noise came from a small fountain in one corner of the room.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

When the government discharges a borrower’s student loan, it sends information to the borrower’s servicer instructing it to get rid of the loans.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

Along with friction and chemical reactions, tiny electrical discharges from charged droplets may also play a role in how coatings break down over time.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

Hammond said he found about 86% of the raw sewage spilling hours took place when there had not been heavy rain, meaning those discharges could be potentially illegal.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

France has reduced output at its nuclear reactors, because the rivers where it discharges water used to cool the reactors are already too hot.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

The doctor discharges me three days later, on the condition I return daily to have my dressings changed and breathing monitored.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

After less than a year in Salzburg, he’s discharged and sent home, back on the path to a conventional legal career.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

But for months or even years after these borrowers received notice that their debt had been discharged, many were still finding outstanding loan balances when they logged into their servicer’s portal.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

In August, a source close to Applegate told The Times that “all is well” after Applegate was reportedly discharged and back at home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

A jury has been discharged after failing to reach a verdict in the trial of a man accused of plotting to disrupt Boris Johnson's wedding reception.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Some code talkers stayed on in the Pacific after they were discharged.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac

It has invested in Italian company D-Orbit, which offers services to insert satellites into orbit, and Skeleton, an Estonian maker of energy-storage devices designed for fast charging and discharging.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

A charge cycle represents one complete use of a battery, from charging to discharging and back again.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026

France's main energy provider also shut down two nuclear reactors on Thursday as an environmental protection measure to avoid discharging too much hot water into already warming rivers.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

Regarding the one count of discharging a firearm, Allen’s attorneys wrote that the government “has not asserted that Mr. Allen ever fired any of the recovered weapons.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026

She cannot hear anything beyond the rain outside and her own pulse discharging in her temples.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr




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