Read this sentence from "Boston Tea Party Eyewitness Account: Joshua Wyeth." "Others raised them to the railing and discharged their contents overboard." What is the meaning of the word discharged as it is used in this sentence?

Emptied

Explanation:

In this sentence we are being told that these people discharged the contents of what they had with them overboard.

To discharge is to allow something to come out from the place where it was confined to.

In view of this definition, they emptied the contents into the sea since it is evident that they are onboard a ship.

Emptied is the other word for discharge here

postive, comparative, superlative - good, better, best

recall how we defined nouns as words capable of having plurals and possessive endings. adjectives (and their first cousin, the adverb) also have a feature that distinguishes them. they come in three states. first, the raw adjective—in its positive state—merely describes the noun modified; it doesn’t care about how this particular person or thing stacks up against other members of the same noun class

the group received an extra pound of butter for christmas.

the annex was delighted to hear that we'll all be receiving an extra quarter pound of butter for christmas.