Meaning

• Pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection or pathology.

• The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.

• The act of expelling or letting go.

• The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.

• The process of unloading something.

• The process of flowing out.

• The act of releasing an accumulated charge.

• The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.

• The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.

• The volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m3/s (cubic meters per second).

Meaning

• To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.

• To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.

• To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.

• To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.

• To expel or let go.

• To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.

• To release (an accumulated charge).

• To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.

• To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.

  "to discharge a prisoner"

• To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).

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

• To unload a ship or another means of transport.

• To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.

  "to discharge a cargo"

• To give forth; to emit or send out.

  "A pipe discharges water."

• To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.

  "He discharged a horrible oath."

• To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.

  "to discharge the colour from a dyed fabric in order to form light figures on a dark background"

• To prohibit; to forbid.