The meaning of DISCHARGE is to relieve of a charge, load, or burden. How to use discharge in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Discharge.

DISCHARGED definition: 1. past simple and past participle of discharge 2. to allow someone officially to leave somewhere…. Learn more.

To discharge is to fire a gun or an employee, or to set someone free from a hospital or jail. You'd probably like being discharged from jail, but not from your job, unless you really hate it. As a verb, …

DISCHARGED definition: released, sent away, or allowed to leave. See examples of discharged used in a sentence.

Definition of discharge verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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

When someone is discharged from hospital, prison, or one of the armed services, they are officially allowed to leave, or told that they must leave.

Military to (cause to) fire, go off, or shoot (a gun): [~ + object] In crowded places the police should not discharge their weapons. [no object] The weapon discharged when it hit the ground.

• One of the four police officers injured in the explosion has been discharged from hospital. • Florence W., aged four, was to be handed over to her father as soon as he was discharged from prison. • He …

The company illegally discharged [= fired] several union organizers. We had to discharge several employees last week.