discharge
verb (used with object)
to relieve of a charge or load; unload.
have discharged
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present perfectof discharge.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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For decades London’s Victorian-era sewers have discharged raw sewage into the River Thames after heavy rain.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2023
Last August, FBI forensics reports suggested that the gun would not have discharged without its trigger being pulled while the weapon was cocked.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 23, 2023
Lawrence Rudolph explained that his wife must have discharged the shotgun as she was trying to put it in its case, authorities said at the time.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 18, 2022
Detective Myles Cosgrove – who is said to have discharged his weapon 16 times that night – was also reportedly seen not being separated from the other responding officers.
From Fox News ● Sep. 28, 2020
The plaintiffs have discharged the taxed costs of the defendants.
From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Charles Mackie
