How To Use Discharged In A Sentence

If it is a battery that is shorted, the battery will be discharged very quickly and will heat up due to the high current flow.
If it is a battery that is shorted, the battery will be discharged very quickly and will heat up due to the high current flow.
She suffered minor smoke inhalation and was discharged from hospital last night. The Sun
The members of the jury were discharged from their duties.
Upon these, and along the walls, which in most castles were topped by a parapet and a kind of embrasure called crennels, the defenders of the castle were stationed during a siege, and from thence discharged arrows, darts, stones, and every kind of annoyance they could procure, upon their enemies. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)

We are increasingly concerned about patients being discharged unsafely from hospital. Times, Sunday Times
We discharged the cargo at London.
The so-called "particularism" of Israel's idea of God was in fact the real strength of Israel's religion; it thus escaped from barren mythologisings, and became free to apply itself to the moral tasks which are always given, and admit of being discharged, only in definite spheres. Prolegomena
Overhead, lightning flickered frequently as the static electricity accumulating in the ash cloud discharged.
They discharged him from prison.
The energy thus captured by the atom will be discharged into the molecules that surround it.
Yes, but the undeniable facts were the gun discharged because the trigger was pulled.
He settled in Baltimore and was appointed to the collectorship of the port, by the Governor of the State, the duties of which he discharged with the same exemplary fidelity which had attended his military career. A sketch of the life and services of Gen. Otho Holland Williams Read before the Maryland historical society, on Thursday evening, March 6, 1851
Raw sewage was discharged into the ocean.
She was formally discharged by the court following the jury's unanimous verdict.
At the same time three muskets were discharged; and while one ball rattled against the corslet of proof, to the strength of which our valiant Captain had been more than once indebted for his life, another penetrated the armour which covered the front of his left thigh, and stretched him on the ground. A Legend of Montrose
In early September, after a binge drinking session, he collapsed in the street and was rushed by ambulance to York Hospital where he was treated and discharged.
A 23 year old woman was referred by her general practitioner with multiple, unsightly lesions on her right pinna, which occasionally discharged pus.
Compared with electromagnetic braking (EMBr) ruler, the brake effect of the the jet–pattern magnetic field on the flow discharged from the nozzle and the flow at the meniscus are the better.
In the end, that was what this arrangement depended upon, that the putative trustee should acquire the property beneficially and be discharged of its obligations.
The policeman discharged his gun at the fleeing terrorists.
It is understood that he was taken to hospital and discharged after having stitches. Times, Sunday Times
Robin Shellard, defending, said his client had reappraised his life while in hospital and since being discharged had not returned to his past life of drug abuse and crime.
Staff have been told they must tell the police an hour before a patient is discharged. Times, Sunday Times
However, when discharged phosphorus and nitrogen compounds reach levels in the receiving waters that do cause eutrophication, further treatment, the so-called tertiary treatment, which "unfixes" the bound nitrogen in the waste (at great expense) by transforming it through denitrification to nitrogen gas, becomes necessary. Chapter 7
It is understood that he was taken to hospital and discharged after having stitches. Times, Sunday Times
Two juries were discharged the first because a juror had to withdraw for personal reasons and the second because the jury room was found not to be soundproof.
At 12.47 a call is received from a patient recently discharged from hospital after a hip operation and now in very bad pain.
He perfectly properly discharged the jury on that occasion.
The package was offered before the patient was discharged from hospital.
The hospital, unable to get him to walk again, wanted him discharged. Times, Sunday Times
No one had discharged the duties of companionship or fulfilled the obligations of succession as they did.
In most cases, he said, members found to have been involved with prohibited substances would be discharged.
And I think he was discharged without a conviction, is that right?
My deepest sympathies are for those soldiers who have died after they were supposed to be discharged from the army.
A lot of people discharged the cargo from a ship.
The emperor and empress earlier in the day met with the king, who has been discharged from the hospital.
His debts to be discharged, and something still to remain! Pride and Prejudice
The jury was discharged over a legal wrangle. The Sun
After being dishonourably discharged from the US Marines in 1959, he moved to Russia, only to be refused citizenship and sent back to the US.
Discharged soldiers often took to brigandage: in 1718 one formed a company of footpads which raided the roads between Paris and Caen.
I wonder which oil company Al Gore will blame for the fact that he 'received more than $500,000 in royalties from the owners of zinc mines who held mineral leases on his farm near Carthage, Tennessee' and that 'Before the mines closed in 2003, they emitted thousands of pounds of toxic substances and several times, the water discharged from the mines into nearby rivers had levels of toxins above what was legal'? Some Stuff
The public order offence was dismissed and the assault charges discharged.
Several of the recruits were discharged from the Army due to medical problems.
For my own part, however, I cannot but wonder, since he had divined and predicted that heterogeneous matter could be discharged by the course he indicates, why he could not or would not perceive, and inform us that, in the natural state of things, the blood might be commodiously transferred from the lungs to the left ventricle of the heart by the very same route. On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
The first jury was discharged for legal reasons on Wednesday.
The river can dilute the small amounts of pollutant discharged by the chemical producer.
Material is pumped from the sea bed as a fluid mixture with water and is discharged into the dredger's hoppers where the heavy material rapidly sinks to the bottom.
The glittering threads of rivers twisted their way to the sea and Hayes could just make out the lighter wash where they discharged sediment.
Five days later Henry discharged himself from hospital.
Currently, there is still no inpatient post-natal care on site, so mums are discharged home a few hours after giving birth.
He has a broken nose but may be discharged today.
The defendant, who had denied the charge and told the jury he was not there, was discharged from the dock by the Judge.
All authority was vested in the woman, who discharged every kind of public duty.
About 500 military personnel are medically discharged from the armed forces each year because or mental health problems. Times, Sunday Times
A lot of people discharged the cargo from a ship.
undischarged ammunition
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. William Faulkner
The prisoners were discharged from the detention camp.
I have discharged my duty, she thought, I can not be troubled by my conscience in that respect.
The zeal of the Scottish reformers was at its height, and this zeal found vent in many a pasquil discharged at Popery. A Book of Old Ballads — Complete
A further 35 per cent are discharged after being given advice or guidance only. Times, Sunday Times
After resigning because of delicate health in August of 1918, she was honorably discharged.
They discharged waste into a lake.
A rocket launcher was discharged in the battle area by fellow marines around the time he was fatally injured.
If you have already studied the law of contract, you may remember that there are a number of ways in which contracts may be discharged so that parties no longer have any obligations under them.
An older colleague injured in the leg in the shooting has since been discharged from hospital.
They discharged waste into a lake.
When I reported to the adjutant, I was formally discharged from the Army of the U.S. and told to report to the 78th Division headquarters.
When she was discharged she was practically paralysed from the waist up and I had to organise round-the-clock care. Times, Sunday Times
A bill is discharged if, at or after its maturity, the holder expressly and absolutely renounces his rights against the acceptor either in writing or by delivering the bill to him.
The police stated that some fifty rounds had been discharged.
If there is a Breach of Warranty the Insurer is discharged from liability from the day of breach.
He will be medically discharged from the Army for an athletic career again.
Cooper, who has no criminal convictions, was discharged from the dock by the Judge.
After 8 weeks of therapy, he was afebrile and eating, and was discharged from the hospital.
The policeman discharged his gun at the fleeing terrorists.
She was discharged from the rehabilitation centre, and returned to the original hospital for out-patient physiotherapy treatment.
It's an undischarged debt of honor.
Most wireless closet dehumidifiers can go at least one or two months before having to be discharged, depending on the volume of air, amount of moisture, and other factors.
He sought to be discharged without conviction because it would hurt his chances of become an official.
` ` I will teach thee to blaspheme the holy Order of the Temple of Zion; '' and with these words, half-wheeling his steed, he made a demi-courbette towards the Saxon, and rising in the stirrups, so as to take full advantage of the descent of the horse, he discharged a fearful blow upon the head of Athelstane. Ivanhoe
She was discharged from the police force for bad conduct.
When I was duly discharged I made a firm resolution to surrender my subscriptions, which were bleeding my budget with their ridiculously high rates and false promises.
Extra equipment will be brought in so drunks can be rehydrated, sobered up and discharged.
He was found guilty and dishonourably discharged from the army.
Avoid direct contact with the carcass, blood and body fluid discharged from the dead bird.
He discharged himself from hospital and left the country without telling anyone. Times, Sunday Times
She was given paracetamol and discharged. Times, Sunday Times
Sewage is discharged directly into the sea.
The weapon discharged when it hit the ground.
This circumstance is considered by the Uzbeks as a miracle, and attributed by them to the son of David; but the more natural explanation would be, that a considerable fissure from the bed of the Oxus, which, from a point at a greater elevation, finds its exit here, and in the lapse of ages having discharged its stream of water impregnated with fine sand, has given rise to the monticule as it now appears, and whose dimensions will probably still increase. Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
I was given a neck brace and painkillers and discharged. The Sun
Mr Loughlin was taken to hospital, had surgery to have plates put in his face and his jaw wired but discharged himself after three days.
After 19 years with the army, the Major, was medically discharged from her unit.
The combat raged without intermission until nightfall: three cannon shots, discharged at the extremity of either line, then marked as if preconcertedly, the pause of battle; and both armies bivouacked exactly where the morning light had found them. The History of Napoleon Buonaparte
He had not gone quite twenty miles from Ispahan before five hundred horsemen, armed cap-a-pie, came up with him and his attendants and discharged a volley of firearms upon them. Candide
The whole course of this area of jurisprudence is that similar functions can be discharged both on an executive basis and a judicial basis.
Even worse, it wasn't unheard of for foreign expatriates or discharged soldiers to form bands of brigands that terrorized lonely travelers.
I am not satisfied that he has discharged the burden of proof upon him.
They were also more independently mobile and were able to be discharged sooner.
He was discharged the following afternoon with a presumptive diagnosis of vasovagal syncope, perhaps related to defecation.
The first capacitor is discharged to boost a voltage at the boosting node, whereas the second capacitor is discharged to boost the voltage at an output terminal.
They pay likewise subsidies with the temporalty, but in such sort that if these pay after four shillings for land, the clergy contribute commonly after six shillings of the pound, so that of a benefice of twenty pounds by the year the incumbent thinketh himself well acquitted if, all ordinary payments being discharged, he may reserve thirteen pounds six shillings eightpence towards his own sustentation or maintenance of his family. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
Many stay too long in hospital or are discharged in worse health than when they arrived. Times, Sunday Times
The old standby rechargeable, the nicad can be repeatedly recharged, but for it to take a full charge, it must be fully discharged first. The RVer’s Bible
The judge discharged the prisoner.
The development of sewage systems by Victorian engineers meant human effluent was discharged into the sea, contaminating many shellfish beds.
All authority was vested in the woman, who discharged every kind of public duty.
A nurse provides the patient with written and verbal postoperative instructions before the patient is discharged from the hospital.
And if I had been an impecunious younger son of the gentry, or a farmer struggling to survive an agricultural depression, or a soldier discharged from the army with little prospect of finding a good job, or a poorly paid artisan in a grimy and unsanitary city, I might well have decided to take the risk and opt for the bright, prosperous future and healthful climate that Poyais appeared to offer the adventurous. A Talk with David Sinclair, author of The Land That Never Was
Weeks after she was discharged from hospital the burns became gangrenous and she needed skin grafts. The Sun
Cael pinched his eyes shut as he continued to fight against Lionel, but when the gun discharged, he froze.
It would have taken only one shot to end his life and ruin that of the police officer who discharged it.
[- 24 -] And they would have perished utterly, but for the fact that some of the pikes of the barbarians were bent and others were broken, while the bowstrings snapped under the constant shooting, the missiles were all discharged, every sword blunted, and, chief of all, that the men themselves grew weary of the slaughter. Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C.
Then let _a_ and _b_ be discharged; the discharge destroys or neutralizes all external induction, and the coatings are therefore found by the carrier ball unelectrified; but it also removes almost the whole of the forces by which the electric charge was driven into the dielectric, and though probably a part of that charge goes forward in its passage and terminates in what we call discharge, the greater portion returns on its course to the surfaces of _c_, and consequently to the conductors _a_ and _b_, and constitutes the recharge observed. Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1
He continued to improve and was discharged home 11 days after admission.
The taxmen seem to have said that significant benefits will accrue to bank customers who declare undischarged tax liabilities before an investigation begins.
She was discharged from the police force for bad conduct.
Bow hunters have fallen on their bow or arrows, impaling themselves, and other hunters have fallen on their firearm or dropped it, resulting in an accidental shooting when the gun discharged.
Following the verdicts, they were all formally discharged by the court.
When Hugh was gone, with his own cares to keep him fully occupied, and his errand in friendship faithfully discharged, Cadfael damped down his brazier with turves, closed his workshop, and went away to the church. A River So Long
Meconic acid gives a blood-red colour with perchloride of iron, not discharged by corrosive sublimate or chloride of gold. Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
When a blood test was finally taken the initial results appeared on a computer after he was discharged but left unverified for more than a week.
He was discharged and scheduled for repeat dilation and possible stent placement in 3 weeks.
They dare not assert directly that the same laborers that have been discharged find situations in new branches of labor.
The respiration becomes more painful; the head is more extended; the eyes are brilliant; every expiration is accompanied with a grunt, and by a kind of puckering of the angles of the lips; the cough becomes smaller, more suppressed, and more painful; the tongue protrudes from the mouth, and a frothy mucus is abundantly discharged; the breath becomes offensive; a purulent fluid of a bloody color escapes from the nostrils; diarrhoea, profuse and fetid, succeeds to the constipation; the animal becomes rapidly weaker; he is a complete skeleton, and at length he dies. Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure
Once the excess charge is discharged, the light emitting diode stops emitting light.
After the shotgun had discharged he placed it in a rubbish bin and crawled back to his home address.
Hardly pearls discharged by oysters, but rather those who choose to find something that fits them better. Times, Sunday Times
It ended with a caption saying she had discharged herself after three weeks. Times, Sunday Times
After two courses of treatment, the disease was cured and the patient was discharged from the hospital.
When spawning is actually taking place the male takes a position to hold the female against the bottom of the redd and both of the fish vibrate intensely while eggs and milt are simultaneously discharged.
In Washington, for example, a teacher was discharged from his contractual obligation because of his deteriorating eyesight.
Patients being discharged from the hospital may received an initial supply of medications.
It is, in fact, the immobility and abstraction of the Discharged Soldier that disconcerts the onlooker: no visibility is to be found here in the eye of the seer. The Ordinary Sky: Wordsworth, Blanchot, and the Writing of Disaster
The researchers sampled gases, or volatiles, discharged from the volcanoes, and analyzed the nitrogen and helium compositions to trace their sources.
At a national-class shooting tournament recently one of the 140 or so contestants accidentally discharged his pistol.
At M. Lambercier's a good maidservant was discharged for having once made use of an expression before us which was thought to contain some degree of indelicacy.
Today very nearly featured a mercy mission to the local hospital, until the patient in question had the nerve to be discharged before Lisa and I could turn up with the grapes.
They discharged a cargo from a ship.
A sure sign that water is contaminated is "the parasitic plant known as the lemna gibba or green water lentil" -- it's a kind of duckweed -- "which grows in aquatic environments into which urban runoff is continually discharged. Anneli Rufus: Lake Titicaca Is Full of Sh*t
Reproduction in echinoderms is typically by external fertilization; eggs and sperm are freely discharged into the water.
A soldier accidentally discharged his weapon.
He suffered a deep gash on his thigh and was taken to hospital suffering shock, but was later discharged.
The jury was discharged over a legal wrangle. The Sun
He pleaded guilty to possessing cocaine and was conditionally discharged for two years.
Hardly pearls discharged by oysters, but rather those who choose to find something that fits them better. Times, Sunday Times
She was discharged from hospital on Sunday after medics had stitched-up her head wound.
It prevents the bank from paying the money to its customer until the garnishee order is made absolute, or is discharged, as the case may be.
The patient was extubated after 18 hours of postoperative respiratory support and discharged 7 days after surgery.
Rocelline affords the same reactions as artificial ponceau, but if steeped in a concentrated solution of stannous chloride it is in time completely discharged, which is not the case with artificial ponceau. Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882
Once one becomes a soldier, the only way to stop being a soldier (and an enemy combatant) is to die or else be discharged from military service honorably or dishonorably. The Volokh Conspiracy » Opinio Juris Discussions of Targeting of US Citizen
A spacer is a chamber that attaches to an inhaler, captures the discharged medication and holds it until the patient inhales it. A Good and Cheap Asthma Solution - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
The men were taken to hospital but discharged. The Sun
The 24-year-old has been sentenced to one year in prison and has been discharged from the Army.
The pistol discharged accidentally.
Also ineligible are undischarged bankrupts, lunatics, and anyone who has been sentenced to more than three months' imprisonment over the previous five years, or convicted of illegal electoral practices.
The story went that he was a dealer in jewels and furs who had been discharged from the army after Dunkirk.
He had been discharged from the tertiary unit for palliative care.
many employees were discharged in a general housecleaning by the new owners
She was discharged from hospital and went home, but was confined to a wheelchair, as she could not walk.
The phenomena of medical cupping-glasses and of the swallowing of drink and of the projection of bodies, whether discharged in the air or bowled along the ground, are to be investigated on a similar principle; and swift and slow sounds, which appear to be high and low, and are sometimes discordant on account of their inequality, and then again harmonical on account of the equality of the motion which they excite in us. Timaeus
They produce forcibly discharged asexual spores from sporangiophores or sporophores and do not produce sporangia.
A shot was discharged and the culprit fled the scene.
Patients are rarely discharged from the hospital with a chest tube, so earlier removal could result in shorter hospital stays.
He was discharged from the army following his injury.
She discharged all the responsibilities of a minister conscientiously.
A further 35 per cent are discharged after being given advice or guidance only. Times, Sunday Times
We've probably all heard of stories where soldiers of all ranks have discharged, only to re-enlist within 12 months because things just didn't work out.
He discharged his second arrow.
Daniels had been discharged on conduct unbecoming an officer when he knifed someone in a bar in Saigon in 1972.
She was looking down at it and discharged the gun. The Sun
However, the judge ruled that the jury should be discharged and so it was.
Although plainly guilty, some of them were discharged by the courts before they ever came to trial and - from memory - all but one were later acquitted of all charges.
A further 35 per cent are discharged after being given advice or guidance only. Times, Sunday Times
According to the police, there was a struggle and the officer discharged his firearm.
The duties of the Provisorato are discharged by the provisor, fiscal promoter, defender of the Holy The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
About 600 members of the armed forces were discharged for alleged involvement in the coup attempt.
The rehabilitation unit provides accommodation for up to six weeks for elderly people discharged from hospital.
Although some of the sediment load transported by the Axios River was deposited on the deltaic plain during floods, the greater proportion was discharged into the Thermaikos Gulf.
He was taken to the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, but then discharged into police custody.
There, he addresses matters various and sundry, such as the claim that he was dishonorably discharged from the military (he provides documents to the contrary) and that he failed to pay child support (D'Annunzio says that he fell behind while he was "living below the poverty line" but went on to "paid the arrearage and monthly payments on time the remaining years"). Tim D'Annunzio, North Carolina Congressional Contender, Attempts To Debunk The Idea He Is 'Unfit For Office'
The effect of regs 83 and 84 of the General Regulations is that, whether a certificate is revoked or discharged, does not affect the ability of the assisted person's solicitor and counsel to look to the Board for payment of their fees.
Thereafter the excess barbotine becomes diluted in the tank 11 and is discharged through the outlet 30 in order to be regenerated and recycled.
Product from the ship can be discharged onto the existing jetty conveyor or into trucks for transport ashore.
Wastes were also discharged to the river from a paper mill, a hospital, and a strongbox manufacturing factory.
In addition, a muster also registers whether the sailor was either ‘pressed’ or volunteered and whether he was discharged or reserved.
Now that he's been discharged, Wetter hopes to find some gold of his own using a loan for a "grubstake," an old mining term for money to sustain the search. BusinessWeek.com --
At one of the windows of the palace, a tall man in a flowing white robe, with a naked sabre in one hand and a musquetoon in the other, which, from the smoke still issuing from its muzzle, had apparently just been discharged, stood defending himself desperately against a band of fierce and bearded ruffians, who swarmed up a rope ladder fixed below the window. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844
There is no fixed rule of principle or of law to the effect that once a jury have been discharged from returning a verdict there cannot arise some circumstance which permits a judge to set aside the order of discharge.
She was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa after psychiatric consultation and discharged.
Thus, he was an undischarged bankrupt when the writs were issued and when he obtained the default judgments.
Hardly pearls discharged by oysters, but rather those who choose to find something that fits them better. Times, Sunday Times
For example, Tianshui Benma Brewery Co Ltd in Gansu Province, in which Denmark-based Carlsberg has an investment, discharged untreated wastewater into rivers for two years, defying repeated government orders asking it to stop. Global Corporations Blacklisted for Pollution | Impact Lab
Since leaving the UK at the beginning of the year, the ship has steamed 42,000 miles, discharged 60,000 tonnes of oil, and refuelled ships 95 times.
The men were taken to hospital but discharged. The Sun
However, there were occasions when because of the poor quality industrial effluents being discharged into the river the water could carry no oxygen and it was impossible for fish to survive.
[CSA] _No slave or other_ person held to service or labor _in any State or Territory of the Confederate States_, under the laws thereof, escaping _or lawfully carried_ into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor; but shall be delivered up on claim of the party _to whom such slave belongs, or_ to whom such service or labor may be due. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
The alienee of a devisee shall hold discharged from the demands of specialty creditors of the de - visor. Reports of cases argued and determined in the Court of exchequer, from Easter term 32 George III. to [Trinity term 37 George III.] ... both inclusive. [1792-1797]

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