discharge

1. (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).Examples: "GWR plans to use it on the Greenford branch in west London, making use of a fast charger at West Ealing that will charge the batteries in just three and a half minutes. This fast charger is essentially a battery installed at the lineside which is trickle-charged from the electricity grid. It can then discharge quickly into the train's batteries through charging rails and then start recharging itself while the train is running in service."

2. To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.Synonyms: fire, let go, terminate, axe, can, decruit, dehire, discard

3. To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.Synonyms: fire, let go, terminate, axe, can, decruit, dehire, discard

4. (logic) To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.

5. (transitive, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.Examples: "to discharge the colour from a dyed fabric in order to form light figures on a dark background"transitive

6. (obsolete, Scotland) To prohibit; to forbid.Examples: "That Richard Stevenson, Robert Calcott, and Richard Tyldesley, be discharged from farther restraint, giving good security to appear at this Board whensoever summoned, and not depart this city until full satisfaction be given"Scotlandobsolete