Discard

Definition: Discard

Discard

Noun

1. Anything that is cast aside or discarded.

2. To throw out a useless card or to fail to follow suit.

3. Getting rid something that is regarded as useless or undesirable.

Verb

1. Throw or cast away; "Put away your worries".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "discard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Note: Discard \Dis*card"\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Discarded; Discarding.]. (references)

Environment

Literature

Mining

Sports & Leisure

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Synonyms: Discard

Abrogation

Dismiss, discard; cast off, turn off, cast out, cast adrift, cast out of doors, cast aside, cast away; send off, send away, send packing, send about one's business; discharge, get rid of; (eject); bounce; fire, fire out; sack.

Disuse

Verb: not use; do without, dispense with, let alone, not touch, forbear, abstain, spare, waive, neglect; keep back, reserve. lay up, lay by, lay on the shelf, keep on the shelf,lay up in ordinary; lay up in a napkin; shelve; set aside, put aside, lay aside; disuse, leave off, have done with; supersede; discard; (eject); dismiss, give warning.

Ejection

Eject, reject; expel, discard; cut, send to coventry, boycott; chasser; banish; (punish); bounce ; fire, fire out; throw; throw out, throw up, throw off, throw away, throw aside; push; throw out, throw off, throw away, throw aside; shovel out, shovel away, sweep out, sweep away; brush off, brush away, whisk off, whisk away, turn off, turn away, send off, send away; discharge; send adrift, turn adrift, cast adrift; turn out, bundle out; throw overboard; give the sack to; send packing, send about one's business, send to the right about; strike off the roll; (abrogate); turn out neck and heels, turn out head and shoulders, turn out neck and crop; pack off; send away with a flea in the ear; send to Jericho; bow out, show the door to.

Inattention

Close one's eyes to, shut one's eyes to; pay no attention to; dismiss from one's thoughts, discard from one's thoughts, discharge from one's thoughts, dismiss from one's mind, discard from one's mind, discharge from one's mind; drop the subject, think no more of; set aside, turn aside, put aside; turn away from, turn one's attention from, turn a deaf ear to, turn one's back upon.

Nonobservance

Discard, protest, repudiate, fling to the winds, set at naught, nullify, declare null and void; cancel; (wipe off).

Refusal

Resist, cross; not grant; repel, repulse, shut the door in one's face, slam the door in one's face; rebuff; send back, send to the right about, send away with a flea in the ear; deny oneself, not be at home to; discard, spurn; (repudiate); rescind; (revoke); disclaim, protest; dissent.

Rejection

Repudiate, scout, set at naught; fling to the winds, fling to the dogs, fling overboard, fling away, cast to the winds, cast to the dogs, cast overboard, cast away, throw to the winds, throw to the dogs, throw overboard, throw away, toss to the winds, toss to the dogs, toss overboard, toss away; send to the right about; disclaim; (deny); discard; (eject), (have done with).

Relinquishment

Discard, cast off, dismiss; cast away, throw away, pitch away, fling away, cast aside, cast overboard, cast to the dogs, throw aside, throw overboard, throw to the dogs, pitch aside, pitch overboard, pitch to the dogs, fling aside, fling overboard, fling to the dogs; cast to the winds, throw to the winds, sweep to the winds; put away, turn away, sweep away; jettison; reject.

Renounce; (abjure); forego, have done with, drop; disuse; discard; wash one's hands of; drop all idea of.

Crosswords: Discard

You have ruined me, you devil, and now you discard me (A Fool There Was; writing credit: Rudyard Kipling; Porter Emerson Browne)

The Discard (1916)

One of the Discard (1914)

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Books

• Discard Your Disability Doldrums (reference)

• Don't Discard Microsoft IIS - Keep Security Knowledge Current: Giga Collaboration [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• The 6g Ash-Tip and Its Contents: Cultic and Administrative Discard from the Temple? (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

To this I reply, The people shall be judge; for who shall be judge whether his trustee or deputy acts well, and according to the trust reposed in him, but he who deputes him, and must, by having deputed him, have still a power to discard him, when he fails in his trust? If this be reasonable in particular cases of private men, why should it be otherwise in that of the greatest moment, where the welfare of millions is concerned, and also where the evil, if not prevented, is greater, and the redress very difficult, dear, and dangerous? (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Promptly bury (or--preferably--burn followed by burying, when in accordance with local requirements) all garbage and trash, or discard in covered trash containers. (references)

ALT is a continuous variable, but the decision to discard a unit of blood is a binary one. Thus, healthy donors with borderline elevations of ALT may be deferred or permanently excluded from donating blood. (references)

Very soft bristle toothbrushes should be used. If you prefer a Toothette (a spongy swab), discard it after use. Water jet devices or dental floss should not be used when blood counts are low and your child is prone to infection. (references)

Business

Municipalities determine the rate of charges for collection, sorting and disposal of municipal waste; it is their responsibility to establish secured sites where citizens may discard dangerous components of municipal waste. (references)

Political Economy

Laos

Since 1986 the Government largely has abandoned most of its socialist economic policies, although in practice the domination of the state-owned banks and enterprises and an apparent lack of conviction in improving the investment climate indicate a reluctance to discard socialist models. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "discard": discard [tech.] ♦ discard eligibility indicator ♦ discard eligible ♦ discard to ♦ go into the discard. Additional references.

Beginning with "discard": discard-tray.

Albanian

skarcitet (refuse), pushoj dikë nga puna, nxjerr nga puna (muster out, quit, remove, sack, send packing, throw out), letra të hedhura (wastepaper), heq dorë nga (abnegate, disclaim, do without, forego, forgo, forsake, lay aside, lay down, part with, relinquish, renounce, throw over, waive), hedhurinë (dross, wastage), hedhje letrash, hedh (aim, cast, cheat, chuck, dart, dash, diddle, dispose of, down-load, drop, evade, flash, fling, flip, fob, fob off, have, heave, hose, hurl, land, launch, pitch, pour out, project, push, rain, release, scrap, send, set down, sink, sling, spill, sprinkle, strew, swing, tap, throw, throw away, throw down, throw over, toss, touch off, transfer, winnow), gjë e hedhur. (various references)

Arabic 

‏نبذ (cashier, centrifuge, dereliction, dismiss, dismissal, forsake, reject, rejection, relegate, reprobate, scrap, slough, throw away), ‏طرح ورق اللعبة, ‏رمي الورق, ‏رمى (bin, bowl along, cast, cast down, chuck, lance, pitch, pop, project, sling, strike in, sweep, throw, tilt). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съкращавам (abbreviate, abridge, cancel, condense, contract, curtail, cut short, elide, prune, reduce, retrench, slash, take off, terminate, truncate), уволнявам (boot, cast, discharge, dismiss, dispense, drop, fire, grass, lay off, muster out, release, relieve, remove, retire, sack, send away, separate, shelve, turn away), чистя (clean, dress, mop, pick, Slough, stone, unload), отказвам се от (abandon, abnegate, call off, decline, deny oneself, disavow, disclaim, forwent, give away, give oneself up, give up, jettison, part with, pass up, put away, remise, renounce, repudiate, retract, surrender, toss over, turn from, turn in, yield), захвърляне (dereliction, fling, relegation), захвърлям (fling, forsake, hurl, plunk, relegate, shelve, throw down, throw off), изчистена карта, изоставям (abandon, drop, drop behind, dump, forsake, forsook, hang behind, lay aside, lay by, leave, neglect, overboard, pass up, put away, relinquish, renege, renounce, shelve, turn from, turn in, walk out on), изоставане. (various references)

Chinese 

拋棄 (dump), 擯除 (dispense with, get rid of), 擯棄 (abandon, cast away), 擯 (exclude, expel, reject, renounce), 摈除 (Discarded, Discarding), 丟棄 (abandon). (various references)

Czech

zavrhnout (cast away, cast off, proscribe, reject, reprobate, repudiate, throw over), vyřadit (catch out, dismiss, eliminate, scrap), odložit (abort, adjourn, cast aside, cast off, defer, delay, doff, get off, hang out, hold over, lay aside, lay by, Park, postpone, put aside, put away, put off, recess, reprieve, stay, suspend, take off, throw away), odhodit (cast off, chuck away, throw away). (various references)

Danish

skrottet (out of use), rest (remainder, rest), nedtagning (breakdown, discarding, dismantling, recovery, removal, taking up, teardown, withdrawal), materialetab (offcut, scrap, waste), kasseret (out of use, withdraw), fjernelse (ablation, ablation(artificial), amotio, amputation, balatio, detachment, excision, removal, subduction, taking up, traumatic amputation, withdrawal), at bortkaste, aflægning (cutting, distribution, propagation by cuttings, removal, taking up, withdrawal), affald (arisings, detritus, effluent, filter cake, garbage, going about, offcut, refuse, residue, salvage, scrap, trash, waste). (various references)

Dutch

afdanken (discharge, dismiss, fire, sack). (various references)

Esperanto

uzofini. (various references)

Farsi 

متروک ساختن , دورانداختن (Rejcet), دست کشیدن از (Disaccustom, Leave, Leaveoff, Quit). (various references)

Finnish

hylätä (abandon, cancel, decline, desert, disallow, dismiss, disown, forsake, leave, refuse, reject), heittää pois (dispose of, throw away). (various references)

French

écarter. (various references)

Frisian

ôftankje (dispense with, do away with, get rid of, remove). (various references)

German

ablegen (cast aside, cast off, file, give up, lay aside, lay away, lay down, outgrow, pass, pull away, put aside, put down, put off, remove, renounce, shed, shove off, shuffle off, store, swear, throw off, to discard, ungird, unlearn). (various references)

Greek 

απορρίπτω (cast, disallow, disclaim, fail, overrule, refuse, reject, scout, shed, turn down), πετώ (cast, cast off, chuck, dump, fleet, fling, fly, hurl, jet, throw, wing). (various references)

Hebrew 

להשיל (drop off, shed, throw away), להשיר (cast off, drop, let fall, throw away). (various references)

Hungarian

felesleges kártyák lerakása, félretesz (allocate, cast aside, lay aside, lay by, move away, pigeon-hole, put aside, put off, set apart, set aside, set by, to appropriate, to lay aside, to lay by, to lay sg by, to lay up, to pigeonhole, to put down, to put off, to put sg by, to put sg to one side, to reserve, to separate, to set by, to set sg by, to shelve, to throw off), eldob (cast, fling away, put off, threw, throw away, thrown, to abject, to cast away, to chuck, to chuck away, to discard, to throw, to throw away, to throw off). (various references)

Italian

scarto (board, difference, margin, reject, rejection, run out, scrap, wastage, waste). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

没 (death). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぼつ (death, rise, suddenness). (various references)

Korean 

버리기. (various references)

Manx

ceau ersooyl (dispose, throw away). (various references)

Pig Latin

iscardday.(various references)

Portuguese

rejeitar (cast off, condemn, confute, daff, deny, disapprove, disavow, disclaim, get up the better, negative, overrule, pill, pip, put by, rebuff, rebut, refuse, reject, renounce, repel, reprobate, repudiate, repulse, throw-out, turn down), descarte. (various references)

Romanian

decarta, respinge (alienate, beat back, blackball, cast away, check, confute, decline, deny, disaffirm, disprove, except, fend, force back, kill, leave, negate, negative, overrule, plough, rebuff, rebut, recess, refuse, refute, reject, relinquish, repel, repudiate, repugn, repulse, return, throw out), renunţa (disclaim, drop out, give up, relinquish, surrender), goni (banish, career, chase, course, dash, dismiss, dispel, drive, flap away, Hunt, pack off, send, send away, shoo, start, sweep), concedia (boot, discharge, dismiss, drum out, fire, give notice, pay off, put out, retire, sack, shelve, suspend, turn off), arunca (bowl, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast off, chuck, cob, dart, dash, deliver, drop, fling, huddle on, hurl, jet, jettison, launch, peg, pelt at, pitch, pluck, plump, plunge into, precipitate, project, put, reject, rush, send, shoot, slam, sling, throw, throw away, throw off, throw out, toss, tumble), înlãtura (avert, brush aside, cast away, clear, dismiss, disseize, do away, do away with, eliminate, forbear, make a clean sweep of smth., move away, obviate, overbear, preclude, remove, save, seclude, supersede, supplant, take away, throw by), îndepãrta (avert, carry off, cast, chase away, clean, clear, cut out, dismiss, drive away, eliminate, estrange, fence off, lay, move away, remove, retire, ward off, withdraw). (various references)

Russian 

отвергать (cast aside, disallow, discarding, jettison, negate, negative, override, overrule, rebut, refuse, refuse to admit, reject, rejecting, repel, repudiate, repulse, spurn, turn down, vote down). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

odbaciti (abandon, cast aside, cast away, disallow, dismiss, leave, off it, reject, repel, repudiate, repulse, set apart, throw away, toss off), odbačena stvar. (various references)

Spanish

despedir (abrogate, discharge, dismiss, eject, fire, give notice, give off, give out, order off, pay off, release, sack, see out, send off, send out, shoot off, shoot out, stand off, throw, throw off, throw out, turn away), desecho (cast off, cull, dross, refuse, reject, rejected article, rubbish, throw out). (various references)

Swedish

kasta bort (cast away, fling away, jettison, scrap, throw away, throw to the dogs), kassera (junk, reject, rejekt, scrap). (various references)

Turkish

terketmek (cede, desert, desolate, disuse, ditch, expose, fall off, flee, forsake, jack in, jilt, leave, relinquish, revolt from, throw over, void, walk away, walk on, walk out of, walk out on), kurtulmak (be freed, be recovered from, be rid of, be saved, break away, break loose, break oneself of a habit, defecate, disengage, dispose of, ditch, elude, escape, evade, extricate oneself, free oneself, get away, get clear of, get out of, get rid of, make a bonfire of, make away with, pull through, put off, quit oneself, recover, shake off, smooth away, throw off), kâğıt atmak, kâğıt atma, boş kart, boş kâğıt oynamak, bir köşeye atmak, ayırmak (abstract, allocate, allot, allow, appropriate, assort, book, choose, classify, comb, comb out, contradistinguish, cut off, cut out, demarcate, detach, devote, disband, disembody, disjoin, disrupt, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, disunite, divert, divide, divorce, divorce from, earmark, except, hive off, insulate, intend for, isolate, keep apart, mark out, part, particularize, partition, partition off, pick out, portion, reduce, reserve, resolve, seclude, segregate, select, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, sever, shut off, single out, snatch away from, snatch from, sort, sort out, spare, specialize, split, spread, spread out, sunder, sweep off, take apart, tear away, tear off, unpick, unstick, wall, winnow), atılmış şey, artık (anymore, at that, dreg, dregs, dross, effluent, fag end, hog-wash, leftover, no longer, no more, refuse, remainder, remnant, residual, residue, rest, scraps, shoddy, spoils, tag end, waste), çöp (brushing, chip, crud, dregs, garbage, junk, leavings, litter, mullock, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, straw, trash, waste), ıskartaya ayırmak (junk, scrap, weed out, weed up), ıskartaya çıkarmak (cull, reject, scrap), ıskarta (cull, reject, rejection, throw out, waste product, waster, wastrel, weedy). (various references)

Ukrainian

скидати карту, скидання карт, щось непотрібне (derelict), відкидати (abnegate, baffle, balk, brush away, cast aside, cast away, deny, disapprove, divest, doff, forswear, jettison, negate, negative, non-concur, override, overturn, push back, rebut, reject, reprobate, repudiate, set aside, throw aside, throw away, toss aside, turn down, wave aside, wave away), відмовлятися (abdicate, abjure, abnegate, back down, backtrack, cast off, forgo, forsake, forswear, jettison, lay aside, lay down, nill, part with, pass up, pretext, recede, refuse, relinquish, renounce, repeal, retract, throw aside, throw out, throw over, waive, withdraw). (various references)

effuderim, effuderint, effuderis, effuderit, effuderitis, effudero, effuderunt, effudi, effudisti, effudit, effundam, effundant, effundas, effundatis, effundatur, effunde, effundebantque, effundebatur, effundendum, effundens, effundensque, effundent, effundentem, effundentes, effundentium, effunderem, effunderent, effundes, effundet, effundetur, effundi, effundit, effundite, effunditur, effundo, effusa, effusi, effuso, effusorum, effusum, effusus, supereffundentia. (various references)

aweorpan. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "discard": discardable, discarded, discarder, discarders, discarding, discards. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Discard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Descar, Didcart, disad, discald, discared, discarte, discer, Discorde, discort, discr, discre, discri, dispar, Dixcart, Dizzard, Fiscardo, Fiskardo, Pissard, Triscari. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: caddis, cairds, darics.

-2 letters: acids, acrid, asdic, cadis, caids, caird, cards, daric, raids.

-3 letters: acid, adds, aids, airs, arcs, arid, asci, cadi, cads, caid, card, cars, cris, dads, dais, disc, rads, raid, rias, rids, sadi, said, sard, sari, scad, scar.

-4 letters: add, ads, aid, air, ais, arc, ars, cad, car, cis, dad, did, dis.

+1 letter: discards.

+2 letters: cardioids, disaccord, discarded, discarder, disgraced, hydracids, radicands, readdicts, riddances.

+3 letters: caddisworm, carditides, cedarbirds, dedicators, dichondras, disaccords, discarders, discarding, discharged, discordant, distracted.

+4 letters: caddisworms, disaccorded, discardable, discordance, discordancy, discouraged, forecaddies, radicalised, rededicates, sidetracked.

+5 letters: adjudicators, bradycardias, candidatures, desacralized, disaccharide, disaccording, discordances, discordantly, distractedly, endocarditis, forbiddances, griddlecakes, merchandised, redundancies, undischarged, undistracted.