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discharge

Best crossword clue

"Release from duty"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /dɪsˈtʃɑːdʒ/Part of speech verb, nounSorted acdeghirsStarts with DEnds with E1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. eliminate (a substance)

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • O most dear mistress, / The sun will set before I shall discharge / What I must strive to do.
  • But in deede, the ſecret cauſe that brought Ageſilaus to conſent vnto this practiſe, was the greatnes of his dette which he ought, of the which he hoped to be diſcharged by chaunging of the ſtate and common wealth.
  • For if One Man's Faults could Discharge Another Man of his Duty,there would be no longer any Place left for the Common Offices of Society.

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