discharge
- the process of legally setting free n.
- dismissal from a job, the military, etc. n.
- detonation, especially of a weapon n.
- a pouring forth, especially from the body n.
- act or instance of unloading n.
- carrying out of responsibility n.
- full payment of debt n.
- release from legal custody v.
- dismiss from a job, the military, etc. v.
- detonate a weapon v.
- pour forth, especially from the body v.
- remove cargo from something v.
- carry out responsibility v.
- fully pay or settle debt v.
- dismiss a legal or legislative process v.
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It then reverses the process, turning the rust back into iron and breathing out oxygen to charge and discharge the battery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Thursday’s order requires Lineage to monitor the air these filtration systems discharge into the community.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
There’s a 218-vote threshold required for a discharge petition in the House.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
Duffy was given a two-year conditional discharge and ordered to pay £565 in compensation to his neighbour.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
An assortment of antipsychotic medicines was prescribed, and he improved gradually—but never enough, apparently, to merit discharge.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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
Sewage discharges, runoff of fertilisers and manures from farms and wastewater from industry can all increase nutrient levels in rivers and estuaries.
From BBC ● May 2, 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 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
A local police chief said at the time that the suspect was hospitalised for psychiatric treatment in December and had been discharged.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
Mitch McConnell announced that he was being discharged from the hospital on Thursday, saying that he would “continue his recovery at home.”
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
The Times of London reported that Collins was hospitalized in November 2023 and swiftly discharged, only to return to the intensive care unit and stay hospitalized for seven months.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
All of them had been discharged from hospital, Hylton said.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
“So he says,” resumed the convict I had recognised,—“it was all said and done in half a minute, behind a pile of timber in the Dock-yard,—‘You’re a-going to be discharged?’
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
A charge cycle represents one complete use of a battery, from charging to discharging and back again.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
Sherwin said firefighters could hear ammunition discharging in the distance as they continued to fight the flames.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 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
Moloney said by discharging Calocane to his GP, the trust "left him to the general public to deal with".
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
I just needed to stay put for a few more hours and then he’d be discharging me.
From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds
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