Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not discharged.
  • Not fulfilled; not carried out; unexecuted: as, an undischarged duty.

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  • adjective not discharged

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective still capable of exploding or being fired
  • adjective owed as a debt

Etymologies

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un- +‎ discharged

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Examples

  • And this was to say nothing of my one diarist's duty still undischarged: If I was snuffed out here and now who would tell the untellable tale?

    'The Last Werewolf' 2011

  • The human body is the information source on 24: a dying person with undischarged intel must be revived with hypodermics or buzzing paddles.

    The Clock is Ticking for Jack Bauer 2010

  • Watford discovered Anthony was in fact a convicted fraudster and undischarged bankrupt named Paul Anthony Garland.

    Watford spared embarrassment by calling off negotiations 2011

  • The human body is the information source on 24: a dying person with undischarged intel must be revived with hypodermics or buzzing paddles.

    The Clock is Ticking for Jack Bauer 2010

  • Too many grandparents have given too many copies of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer or The Prince and the Pauper to too many grandchildren, who then went about for the rest of childhood under a cloud of undischarged obligation while those books sat on numberless shelves, unread.

    Our Mysterious Stranger 2010

  • James had accepted a position as 'partner Director' with Glasgow Culture & Sport despite section 52.1 of the body's Articles of Association stating that an "undischarged bankrupt" which James was at the time could not take such a position.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Jeff 2009

  • James had accepted a position as 'partner Director' with Glasgow Culture & Sport despite section 52.1 of the body's Articles of Association stating that an "undischarged bankrupt" which James was at the time could not take such a position.

    SNP Candidate steps down from Glasgow NE by-election Jeff 2009

  • For the next century or so, there was the phenomenon of the undischarged bankrupt: the debtor who had given over all his assets to the creditors, made a full disclosure, and still did not get his discharge.

    History of Bankruptcy Discharge Emily Kadens 2009

  • Indeed, if there is a disgrace, it is that previous administrations left the responsibility undischarged.

    Archive 2009-01-01 The Orator 2009

  • Indeed, if there is a disgrace, it is that previous administrations left the responsibility undischarged.

    Hitchens isn't sorry that George W. Bush was President The Orator 2009

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