(~d)
1.
When someone is ~d from hospital, prison, or one of the armed services, they are officially allowed to leave, or told that they must leave.
He has a broken nose but may be ~d today...
Five days later Henry ~d himself from hospital.
VERB: be V-ed, V pron-refl, also V n
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Discharge is also a noun.
He was given a conditional ~ and ordered to pay compensation.
N-VAR
2.
If someone ~s their duties or responsibilities, they do everything that needs to be done in order to complete them. (FORMAL)
...the quiet competence with which he ~d his many college duties.
VERB: V n
3.
If someone ~s a debt, they pay it. (FORMAL)
The goods will be sold for a fraction of their value in order to ~ the debt.
VERB: V n
4.
If something is ~d from inside a place, it comes out. (FORMAL)
The resulting salty water will be ~d at sea...
The bird had trouble breathing and was discharging blood from the nostrils.
VERB: be V-ed prep, V n prep
5.
When there is a ~ of a substance, the substance comes out from inside somewhere. (FORMAL)
They develop a fever and a watery ~ from their eyes...
N-VAR: usu with supp