0 present participle of discharge --
1 to allow someone officially to leave somewhere, especially a hospital or a law court: --
UK A peace protester was conditionally discharged for twelve months (= allowed to go free only if they do not commit a crime again for this period of time).
More than half of all prisoners discharged are reconvicted within two years.
Patients were discharged from the hospital because the beds were needed by other people.
2 to send out a substance, especially waste liquid or gas: --
3 to perform a task, especially an official one: --
Donating a kidney could be construed as the parents' way of discharging this obligation.
To resonate with cortical pyramidal neurons discharging at gamma rhythms, thalamic relay cells have to be in tonicfiring mode.
It was as though the voice was secreting or discharging passively.
Discharging lesions in medial and anterior temporal cortex cause recurring nightmares during sleep and unpleasant hallucinatory experiences during waking life.
Crucially enough, although discharging important official duties, the mayor was paid no salary by the government.
The actor looks like a man discharging an official function so alien to him as to leave him helplessly suspended between being and language.
The same spiral served to calibrate the calorimeter by discharging a capacitor with a known energy.
These calcium-free conditions were employed to minimize the risk of discharging the hcp-aequorin during the microinjection process.
