# discharge

> English word · Verb · IPA /dɪsˈtʃɑːdʒ/ · frequency rank #7,911

## Definitions
1. To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
2. To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
3. To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
4. To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
5. To expel or let go.
6. To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
7. To release (an accumulated charge).
8. To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
9. To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
10. To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
11. To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
12. To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
13. To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
14. To unload a ship or another means of transport.
15. To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.
16. To give forth; to emit or send out.
17. To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
18. To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
19. To prohibit; to forbid.

## Etymology
From Middle English dischargen, from Old French deschargier (“to unload”), from Late Latin discarricāre (“unload”). By surface analysis, dis- + charge.

## Easily confused with
- **discharged** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/discharge-vs-discharged)

## Common misspellings (14)
`ddischarge`, `dicsharge`, `discahrge`, `disccharge`, `dischagre`, `dischareg`, `dischargge`, `discharrge`, `dischharge`, `dischrage`, `dishcarge`, `disscharge`, `dsicharge`, `idscharge`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/discharge