Betydelse av discharged på svenska

• 0 past simple and past participle of discharge

• 1 to allow someone officially to leave somewhere, especially a hospital or a law court:

  • Patients were discharged from the hospital because the beds were needed by other people.

  • More than half of all prisoners discharged are reconvicted within two years.

  • 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).

• 2 to send out a substance, especially waste liquid or gas:

  • Large amounts of dangerous waste are discharged daily by the factory.

  • The oil that discharged into the sea seriously harmed a lot of birds and animals.

• 3 to perform a task, especially an official one:

  • The city must discharge its legal duty to house the homeless.

• 4 to fire a gun, or to fire a shot from a gun:

  • The police stated that some 50 rounds had been discharged.