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).
3 to perform a task, especially an official one:
The mediastinal drain is removed on the morning after surgery and the patient is discharged home on the third day.
The oral dose of propranolol was increased and the child was discharged with his name having been placed on the surgical waiting list.
Some demonstrated multiple re-admissions of patients, reflecting a supervisory role of a proportion of their discharged patients in the community.
Stent insertion resolved jaundice and sepsis in all cases and all patients were discharged from hospital.
The antecedent clause in this example is a verification condition that might be discharged by applying a rule that expresses a property of integer arithmetic.
To identify the patient's perceptions, semi-structured interviews in patients' own homes were undertaken after they had been discharged from hospital.
She was intermittently confused and disorientated and wished to be discharged.
The other emission sources were assumed to produce the same emissions as the powerhouse generator (discharged at about 6 m above ground level).
