discharge
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(verb) eliminate, as of bodily substances |
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Synonyms: eject, expel, release |
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Related Words: abort, bleed, blow, breathe, cough out, cough up, egest, ejaculate, eliminate, emit, empty, evacuate, excrete, expectorate, fester, give off, hemorrhage, ovulate, pass, pass off, shed blood, spit up, suppurate, void |
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(noun) the act of discharging a gun |
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Synonyms: firing, firing off |
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Related Words: gun, shooting, shot |
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(verb) release from military service |
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Synonyms: muster out |
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Related Words: cannon, demob, demobilize, let go, let go of, release |
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Antonyms: enlist |
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(noun) the act of venting |
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Synonyms: venting |
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Related Words: emanation, emission |
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(verb) pour forth or release; esp. of liquids |
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Related Words: disperse, distribute, dot, dust, eject, force out, play, scatter, spread, sprinkle, squeeze out, squirt, volley |
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(verb) remove the charge from |
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Related Words: remove, take, take away |
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Antonyms: charge |
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(noun) the sudden giving off of energy |
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Related Words: detonation, electrical discharge, eruption, explosion, happening, natural event, occurrence, volcanic eruption |
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(noun) the pouring forth of a fluid |
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Synonyms: outpouring, run |
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Related Words: escape, flow, flowing, jet, leak, leakage, outflow, spirt, spurt, squirt |
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(noun) electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field |
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Synonyms: arc, electric arc, electric discharge, spark |
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Related Words: Saint Elmo's fire, Saint Elmo's light, Saint Ulmo's fire, Saint Ulmo's light, St. Elmo's fire, brush discharge, corona, corona discharge, corposant, electric glow, electrical conduction |
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(noun) any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body; "the discharge of pus" |
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Synonyms: emission, expelling |
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Related Words: activity, bodily function, bodily process, body process, catamenia, ejaculation, elimination, evacuation, excreting, excretion, flow, menses, menstruation, period, voiding |
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(noun) a substance that is emitted or released |
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Synonyms: emission |
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Related Words: effluvium, exudate, material, stuff |
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(noun) the act of terminating someone's employment |
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Synonyms: dismissal, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking |
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Related Words: Section Eight, conclusion, conge, deactivation, dishonorable discharge, ending, inactivation, removal, termination |
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(verb) become empty or void of its content; "The room emptied" |
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Synonyms: empty |
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Related Words: change state, drain, flow away, flow off, turn |
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(verb) cause to go off; "fire a gun"; "fire a bullet" |
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Synonyms: fire |
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Related Words: fusillade, let drive, let fly, loose off, pop, shoot |
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(verb) go off or discharge; "The gun fired" |
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Synonyms: fire, go off |
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Related Words: explode |
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(verb) free from obligations or duties |
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Synonyms: free |
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Related Words: cashier, clear, cut, disembroil, disentangle, disinvolve, divest, liberate, relieve, set free, take over |
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(verb) complete or carry out; "discharge one's duties" |
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Synonyms: complete, dispatch |
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Related Words: carry, execute |
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(noun) a formal written statement of relinquishment |
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Synonyms: release, waiver |
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Related Words: exemption, granting immunity, immunity, relinquishing, relinquishment |
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(verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges; "The suspect was cleared of the murder charges" |
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Synonyms: acquit, assoil, clear, exculpate, exonerate |
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Related Words: judge, label, pronounce, purge, whitewash |
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