0 past simple and past 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: --
Violence by people discharged from acute psychiatric inpatient facilities and by others in the same neighborhoods.
At that stage many can be discharged to an optometrist for final refraction.
Those being discharged from hospital should receive an individualized action plan prepared by clinicians with expertise in the management of asthma.
The patient was discharged from hospital at the age of four months but presented a month later with signs of heart failure.
Pollutants in wastewater emissions are a stock that persist in the waterway once discharged.
Throughout experimental protocols, therefore, extra care was taken to ensure that the hcp-aequorin was not accidentally discharged due to contact with calcium ions.
Several periods of haemodialysis were required before the patient could be discharged, but this proved possible after several weeks of hospitalisation.
The other emission sources were assumed to produce the same emissions as the powerhouse generator (discharged at about 6 m above ground level).
