uncharge

English

Etymology

un- +‎ charge

Verb

uncharge (third-person singular simple present uncharges, present participle uncharging, simple past and past participle uncharged)

  1. (transitive, archaic) To free from a charge or load; to unload or unburden.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Wyclif to this entry?)
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To free from an accusation; to make no charge against; to acquit.
    • William Shakespeare,Hamlet: Act IV, Scene VII.
      And for his death no wind of blame shall breathe; But even his mother shall uncharge the practice, And call it accident.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for uncharge in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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