discard
verb/dɪˈskɑːd/
/dɪˈskɑːrd/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they discard | /dɪˈskɑːd/ /dɪˈskɑːrd/ |
| he / she / it discards | /dɪˈskɑːdz/ /dɪˈskɑːrdz/ |
| past simple discarded | /dɪˈskɑːdɪd/ /dɪˈskɑːrdɪd/ |
| past participle discarded | /dɪˈskɑːdɪd/ /dɪˈskɑːrdɪd/ |
| -ing form discarding | /dɪˈskɑːdɪŋ/ /dɪˈskɑːrdɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] (formal) to get rid of something that you no longer want or need
- discard somebody/something The room was littered with discarded newspapers.
- He had discarded his jacket because of the heat.
- (figurative) She could now discard all thought of promotion.
- discard somebody/something as something 10 per cent of the data was discarded as unreliable.
Extra Examples- Older managers have been discarded in favour of younger people.
- Rose quickly discarded the idea.
- These ideas have now been completely discarded.
- the parts of the animal that people may simply discard as inedible
- Most of the data was discarded as unreliable.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- completely
- entirely
- largely
- …
- in favour/favor of
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- [transitive, intransitive] discard (something) (in card games) to get rid of a card that you do not wantOxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb
- completely
- entirely
- largely
- …
- in favour/favor of
Word Originlate 16th cent. (originally in the sense ‘reject (a playing card)’): from dis- (expressing removal) + the noun card.
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