discharge
/dɪsˈtʃɑːdʒ/ verb [T]Definition
PERSON › to allow someone to leave a hospital or prison, or to order or allow someone to leave an organization such as the army: [often passive] She was discharged from the army yesterday.
SUBSTANCE › If a liquid or gas is discharged from something, it comes out of it: There is evidence that radioactive waste was discharged from the factory.
(Definition of discharge verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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