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discard verb

• get rid of (someone or something) as no longer useful or desirable.
• "Hilary bundled up the clothes she had discarded"
Similar: dispose of, throw away, throw out, get rid of, toss out, reject, jettison, scrap, dispense with, cast aside/off, repudiate, abandon, relinquish, drop, have done with, shed, slough off, shrug off, throw on the scrapheap, chuck (away/out), fling away, dump, ditch, axe, bin, junk, get shut of, get shot of, trash, forsake,
Opposite: keep, acquire,

discard noun

• a thing rejected as no longer useful or desirable.
Origin: late 16th century (originally in the sense ‘reject (a playing card’)): from dis- (expressing removal) + the noun card1.


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