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Discard   /dɪskˈɑrd/   Listen
Discard

verb
(past & past part. discarded; pres. part. discarding)
1.
Throw or cast away.  Synonyms: cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, dispose, fling, put away, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out.
noun
1.
Anything that is cast aside or discarded.
2.
(cards) the act of throwing out a useless card or of failing to follow suit.
3.
Getting rid something that is regarded as useless or undesirable.  Synonym: throwing away.





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"Discard" Quotes from Famous Books



... been agreed that none of the boys should discard their football togs, though given the liberty of washing up, and making themselves a little more respectable. What would a lot of victors on the gridiron look like in a procession, passing shouting crowds of enthusiastic admirers, if they appeared ...
— Jack Winters' Gridiron Chums • Mark Overton
... monarchs strove in vain, by law and force and bribe, To win from Irish thoughts and ways this "more than Irish" tribe; For still they clung to fosterage, to breitheamh[53], cloak, and bard: What king dare say to Geraldine, "your Irish wife discard?" ...
— Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry • Thomas Davis
... giving way to foolish ideas about love and the tastes of young people, whom we can hardly trust to choose their own bonnets, much less to choose in a graver matter in which they are most likely to be influenced by frivolous prejudices.' He wants us, in other words, to discard the deep-seated inner physiological promptings of inherited instinct, and to substitute for them some calm and dispassionate but artificial selection of a fitting partner as the father or mother ...
— Falling in Love - With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science • Grant Allen
... comparatively dependent position, and that she was now prospective lady of the manor. It was quite natural that she should have taken on a little dignity, and it was not natural that she should all at once discard it for her lover. ...
— The Hallam Succession • Amelia Edith Barr
... generally worthless. If the active materials have not become loosened from the grids, and the grids have not been disintegrated and broken, the plates may sometimes be reversed by a long charge at a low rate in the right direction. If this does not restore the plates, discard them. ...
— The Automobile Storage Battery - Its Care And Repair • O. A. Witte


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