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

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explanation:

to eliminate ambiguous remote or broad reference it is necessary to focus on anaphoric reference. by definition "anaphoric reference means that a word in a text refers back to other ideas in the text for its meaning." the references should be clear and leave no room for ambiguity.

in the first case the pronoun it probably refers to the car but it has not been mentioned before so we should replace it for the car. in doing so the statement becomes clear.

in sentence number   two   the pronoun he refers to charles dickens the author. yet, the first half of the sentence is about the book a tale of two cities. to repair this it would be better to rephrase the first half : after i read   a tale of two cities by dickens, he so as to remove the remote reference.