| query | If someone d_________ a debt, they pay it.If someone discharges a debt, they pay it. The goods will be sold for a fraction of their value in order to discharge the debt. |
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| word | discharge |
| full-definition | verb When someone is discharged 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 discharged today. You are being discharged on medical grounds. Five days later Henry discharged himself from hospital. He was given a conditional discharge and ordered to pay compensation. If someone discharges their duties or responsibilities, they do everything that needs to be done in order to complete them. ...the quiet competence with which he discharged his many college duties. If someone discharges a debt, they pay it. The goods will be sold for a fraction of their value in order to discharge the debt. If something is discharged from inside a place, it comes out. The resulting salty water will be discharged at sea. The bird had trouble breathing and was discharging blood from the nostrils. If someone discharges a gun, they fire it. Lewis was tried for unlawfully and dangerously discharging a weapon. noun When there is a discharge of a substance, the substance comes out from inside somewhere . They develop a fever and a watery discharge from their eyes. All discharges and disposals of radioactive waste from Springfields were within relevant limits. |
| inflections | dischargesdischargingdischarged |
| cefr-level | C1 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:c1
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