discharging

To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.

To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.

To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.

To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.

To expel or let go.

To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.

To release (an accumulated charge).

To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.

To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.

“to discharge a prisoner”

To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).

To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.

To unload a ship or another means of transport.

To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.

“to discharge a cargo”

To give forth; to emit or send out.

“A pipe discharges water.”

To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.

“He discharged a horrible oath.”

To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.

“to discharge the colour from a dyed fabric in order to form light figures on a dark background”

To prohibit; to forbid.

The act or process by which something is discharged.