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verb
- 1. get rid of (someone or something) as no longer useful or desirable: "Hilary bundled up the clothes she had discarded"
noun
- 1. a thing rejected as no longer useful or desirable.
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The meaning of DISCARD is to get rid of especially as useless or unwanted. How to use discard in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Discard.
DISCARD definition: 1. to throw something away or get rid of it because you no longer want or need it: 2. to get rid…. Learn more.
If you discard something, you get rid of it because you no longer want it or need it.
When you discard something, you get rid of it. If your closet is overflowing with clothes you haven't worn since 1992, why not discard some of them? When the verb discard first entered the English language in the sixteenth century, it referred to card playing and meant “to throw a card away.”
There are four meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun discard. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
Discard definition: to cast aside or dispose of; get rid of. See examples of DISCARD used in a sentence.
DISCARD meaning: 1. to throw something away or get rid of it because you no longer want or need it: 2. to get rid…. Learn more.
Synonyms for DISCARD: reject, cull, second, rejection, trash, rubbish, waste, scrap; Antonyms of DISCARD: adopt, use, embrace, utilize, employ, take on, retain, keep
1. to cast aside or dispose of; get rid of. 2. a. to throw out (a playing card) from one's hand. b. to play (a card, not a trump, of a different suit from that of the card led). 3. to discard a playing card. n. 4. the act of discarding. 5. a person or thing that is cast out or rejected.
[transitive, intransitive] discard (something) (in card games) to get rid of a card that you do not want. Definition of discard verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
