To accomplish or complete, as an obligation. / To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.

(medicine, uncountable) Pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection or pathology. / The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.

(transitive) To throw away, to reject. / (intransitive, card games) To make a discard; to throw out a card. / To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge.

Anything discarded. / A discarded playing card in a card game. / (programming) A temporary variable used to receive a value of no importance and unable to be read later.

An enforced compliance or control. / A systematic method of obtaining obedience. / A state of order based on submission to authority. / A set of rules regulating behaviour.

(transitive) To train someone by instruction and practice. / (transitive) To teach someone to obey authority. / (transitive) To punish someone in order to (re)gain control.

present participle of discern

Of keen insight or good judgement; perceptive.

discernment

(transitive) To detect with the senses, especially with the eyes. / (transitive) To perceive, recognize, or comprehend with the mind; to descry.