to discharge
100
4.4
- verb
- /dɪsˈtʃɑrdʒ/
- Formal
:
dar de alta
- Thirty-six of the 40 patients (90%) were discharged home within hours of the procedure.
- discharge patients
- discharged from hospital
- discharged home
We follow a war nurse who has been discharged and sent home to Halifax.
- We follow a war nurse who has been discharged and sent home to Halifax.
- So, so medically we can't, we can't discharge him to them.
Examples
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All three of these patients were discharged home the next morning without complication.
Academic text (2008) -
Patients in both groups were discharged on postoperative day 1 with a 7-day course of oral antibiotics.
Academic text (2008) -
The hospital discharged him this morning.
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You kept in touch after he was discharged.
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When will he be discharged?
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David, you're going to be discharged tomorrow.
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Clinical diagnosis was acute meningitis, and the patient was discharged from the hospital on day 9.
Academic text (2012) -
The hospital will discharge you once the doctor gives the okay.
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After her treatment, she was discharged from the hospital and allowed to go home.
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He was formally discharged from his military service after five years of duty.
Synonyms
852
3.8
To stop employing someone so they lose their job
238
1.8
To excuse someone from a duty or rule
201
3.2
Free someone from a duty or responsibility
90
5.5
To make someone stop working for a company
75
3.5
To not punish someone or excuse them from a duty
70
3.3
To remove someone from their job
21
4.3
To take a person or unit out of active service
4
7.5
To release soldiers from military service and return them to civilian life
1
7.2
Officially let a member of the military leave after their service ends
1
7.2
To officially take a person or unit out of military service
To release someone from the military after their service
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
7
4.2
An official release from the military when someone leaves with a good record
- Formal
6
6.7
Official removal from the military because of a serious crime or bad behavior
- Specialized
1
6.7
A lamp that makes light when electricity passes between two metal points inside a gas
- Specialized
1
5.2
A flow of electricity through a gas that makes light or a spark
- Specialized
A faint blue electric glow with many thin light rays that appears when high voltage makes a spark
- Specialized
A faint glow around a high-voltage wire when the air becomes charged
- Specialized
A lamp that makes light by passing electricity between two metal parts inside a glass tube
- Specialized
A lamp that makes light when electricity passes through gas in a glass tube
How Final
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Discharge used for duties comes from dis- 'off' and charge meaning 'responsibility', so to discharge someone is to take their burden away and release them from the duty.