1. Having lost one's job
   "The discharged workers gathered to discuss their options";
   - dismissed, fired, laid-off, pink-slipped

1. Release from obligations or duties
   "The company discharged the employee from his contract";
   - free
    
2. Allow or require to leave (a patient from hospital, from police custody, etc.)
   "The doctor discharged the patient after a week of treatment"
    
3. Release from military service
   "The soldiers were discharged after the war ended";
   - muster out
    
4. Eliminate (a substance)
   "combustion products are discharged in the engine";
   - exhaust, expel, eject, release
    
5. Pour forth or release
   "discharge liquids"
    
6. Carry out, fulfil
   "discharge one's duties";
   - dispatch, complete, despatch [Brit]
    
7. Go off or discharge
   "The gun discharged";
   - fire, go off
    
8. Cause to go off
   "discharge a gun";
   - fire
    
9. Remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
   "The taxi discharged its passengers at the airport";
   - drop, drop off, set down, put down, unload
    
10. Remove the charge from
    "He discharged the battery by leaving the headlights on overnight"
     
11. Become empty or void of its content
    "The battery discharged completely";
    - empty

See also: unemployed

Type of: accomplish, act, action, carry out, carry through, cause, change state, deliver, distribute, eliminate, execute, fulfil [Brit, Cdn], fulfill [N. Amer], get, have, induce, let go, let go of, make, move, obviate, release, relinquish, remove, rid of, spread, stimulate, take, take away, turn, withdraw

Antonym: charge, draft, fill

Encyclopedia: Discharged