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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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WEAK


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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WEAK


VERB
dismiss a legal or legislative process
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On Monday, Wangchuk appealed to doctors to discharge him so he could join the march but was not allowed.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

This created a form of plasma called a glow discharge.

From Science Daily Jul. 19, 2026

He served as a photographer in Germany during the Korean War and joined his father at Disney following his 1952 discharge from the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 12, 2026

But the doctors haven't given him a discharge date.

From Barron's Jul. 5, 2026

Despite multiple referrals from commanding officers for psychiatric evaluation, he remained in combat for seven months before his “crying outbursts” and “uncommunicative withdrawal” resulted in an honorable discharge in December 1966.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

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

Now the department is ending the most-generous repayment plan and has extinguished hopes for sweeping discharges of debt.

From The Wall Street Journal May 2, 2026

The follow-up River Wye Action Plan in 2024 blamed excessive nutrients from farming and wastewater discharges as well as climate change for increasing the water temperature and reducing the water flow in hot dry summers.

From BBC Apr. 26, 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

Nottinghamshire Healthcare was responsible for Calocane's care for two years before he was discharged in September 2022.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

Four servicemembers were medically evacuated to Jordanian hospitals and have since been discharged, according to Centcom.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

The experience put him in the intensive care unit for nine days, after which he was discharged to a rehabilitation facility.

From MarketWatch Jul. 7, 2026

One of the injured has been discharged from the hospital, officials said.

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

I left the bosom of my family within a few days of being discharged from the hospital.

From "How I Live Now" by Meg Rosoff

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

And unlike Michael Drejka, she brandished her gun without discharging it.

From Slate Jun. 4, 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

DC Water violated the Clean Water Act, which prohibits discharging pollutants into navigable waters, the lawsuit in Washington, D.C.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 20, 2026

One day thirty ships arrived, thirteen of them from the West Indies, but no one was available to stop them from docking or discharging passengers.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy




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