Definition of "discharging" []

• Present participle of discharge. (verb)

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• "Discretion necessarily implies good faith in discharging public duty; there is always a perspective within which a statute is intended to operate; and any clear departure from its lines or objects is just as objectionable as fraud or corruption."
• "For the past 40 years, and especially for the past 30 years (post Reagan) the US government has been largely asleep in discharging those responsibilities."
• "Both Jeff Frederick and Eric Rudolph have possessed explosive materials and showed a real glee in discharging them."