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Webster 1913 Edition
Discard
Dis-card′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Discarded
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Discarding
.] 1.
(Card Playing)
To throw out of one’s hand, as superfluous cards; to lay aside (a card or cards).
2.
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. Swift.
3.
To put or thrust away; to reject.
Syn. – To dismiss; displace; discharge; cashier.
Dis-card′
,Verb.
I.
(Card Playing)
To make a discard.
Dis-card′
,Noun.
(Card Playing)
The act of discarding; also, the card or cards discarded.
Webster 1828 Edition
Discard
DISCARD
,Verb.
T.
1.
To throw out of the hand such cards as are useless.2.
To dismiss from service or employment, or from society; to cast off; as, to discard spies and informers; to discard an old servant; to discard an associate.3.
To thrust away; to reject; as, to discard prejudices.Definition 2024
discard
discard
English
Verb
discard (third-person singular simple present discards, present participle discarding, simple past and past participle discarded)
- (transitive) to throw away, to reject.
- I. Taylor
- A man discards the follies of boyhood.
- I. Taylor
- (intransitive, card games) To make a discard; to throw out a card.
- To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge.
- Jonathan Swift
- They blame the favourites, and think it nothing extraordinary that the queen should […] resolve to discard them.
- Jonathan Swift
Synonyms
- cast away
- dismiss
- dispose
- eliminate
- get rid of
- throw away
- See also Wikisaurus:junk
Translations
to throw away, reject
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Noun
discard (plural discards)
- Anything discarded.
- A discarded playing card in a card game.
Translations
anything discarded
discarded playing card