Daughter Is Accused But Let Off Crossword Clue

We think the answer is "DISCHARGED" which means:

adjective satellite
• • Having lost your job
verb
• • To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
• • To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
• • To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
• • To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
• • To expel or let go.
• • To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
• • To release (an accumulated charge).
• • To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
• • To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
• • To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
• • To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
• • To unload a ship or another means of transport.
• • To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.
• • To give forth; to emit or send out.
• • To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
• • To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
• • To prohibit; to forbid.

An example sentence would be:

• • "The soldier was discharged from the army after serving his term."
• • "The doctor discharged the patient from the hospital."

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