To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
O most dear mistress, / The sun will set before I shall discharge / What I must strive to do.
To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
But in deede, the ſecret cauſe that brought Ageſilaus to conſent vnto this practiſe, was the greatnes of his dette which he ought, of the which he hoped to be diſcharged by chaunging of the ſtate and common wealth.
To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
If he had / The present money to discharge the Jew.
The act of expelling or letting go.
care transition after discharge
The material thus released.
From Middle English dischargen, from Old French deschargier (“to unload”), from Late Latin discarricāre (“unload”). By surface analysis, dis- + charge.
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Near-synonyms: effluent, effluence (sometimes synonymous)