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/dɪskˈɑrdɪd/ Listen

verb

Discard v. t. (past & past part. discarded; pres. part. discarding)

(Card Playing) To throw out of one's hand, as superfluous cards; to lay aside (a card or cards).

To cast off as useless or as no longer of service; to dismiss from employment, confidence, or favor; to discharge; to turn away. "They blame the favorites, and think it nothing extraordinary that the queen should... resolve to discard them."

To put or thrust away; to reject. "A man discards the follies of boyhood."

Synonyms: To dismiss; displace; discharge; cashier.

Discard v. i. (Card Playing) To make a discard.

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Etymology of 'Discarded'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Discarded" Quotes from Famous Books

... The discarded breeches used by the pouched turkey had been devoted to her whim. Every stitch was neatly set. I praised her beautiful needlework, and she said she would make me ...

— Lazarre • Mary Hartwell Catherwood

... Gilbert, with the aid of the utmost tact and the most tender affection, might be drawn back to her and mended. She almost used Hosack's caustic expression "rescued." The word came into her mind but was instantly discarded because it was obvious that Joan, however impishly she had played with Gilbert, was unaffected. Angry as it made her to know that any girl could see in Gilbert merely a man with whom to fool she was supremely thankful that the complication ...

— Who Cares? • Cosmo Hamilton

... volume (XVI.) of the collected works the third section was reprinted, but all the other matter was discarded—with a rather imperfect appreciation of the labour which the author had bestowed upon it, and his own estimate of the value of what he had condensed in this Series—as frequently expressed ...

— The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 - With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg • Thomas de Quincey

... modern times Nuremberg became a centre of astronomical culture. Waltherus, of that town, made really accurate observations of star altitudes, and of the distances between stars; and in 1484 A.D. he used a kind of clock. Tycho Brahe tried these, but discarded them as being inaccurate. ...

— History of Astronomy • George Forbes

... potent to confer fertility on maidens; and it became the practice for growing girls to wear a girdle on which to suspend the shells as near as possible to the organ their magic was supposed to stimulate. Among many peoples[264] this girdle was discarded as soon as the ...

— The Evolution of the Dragon • G. Elliot Smith

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