Allow and Discharge

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Allow verb - To give permission for or to approve of.

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Discharge is an antonym for allow.

Nearby Words: allowance, allowable, allowing

Discharge verb - To cause (a projectile) to be driven forward with force.

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Allow is an antonym for discharge in invalidate agreement topic.

power	allow power	discharge power
action	allow action	discharge action
people	allow people	discharge people
amount	allow amount	discharge amount
Other words: powers, weapons, guns.

Sturmtruppen had an arc based on this and the famous Catch-22 example (see below), with a soldier finding out that the regulations allow to demand discharge for madness... Only for the sergeant to dub all his attempts at being proving himself crazy as proof he's an idiot.

Source: Draft Dodging

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