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- DictionaryDis·card
verb
- 1. get rid of (someone or something) as no longer useful or desirable: "Hilary bundled up the clothes she had discarded"
noun
- 1. a person or thing rejected as no longer useful or desirable.
The meaning of DISCARD is to get rid of especially as useless or unwanted. How to use discard in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Discard.
When you discard something, you get rid of it. If your closet is overflowing with clothes you haven't worn since 1992, why not discard some of them? When the verb discard first entered the English language in the sixteenth century, it referred to card playing and meant “to throw a card away.”
DISCARD meaning: 1. to throw something away or get rid of it because you no longer want or need it: 2. to get rid…. Learn more.
DISCARD definition: 1. to throw something away or get rid of it because you no longer want or need it: 2. to get rid…. Learn more.
Discard definition: to cast aside or dispose of; get rid of. See examples of DISCARD used in a sentence.
[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.
to remove (a card or cards) from one's hand. b. to play (a card not a trump and not in the suit led) when holding no cards in the suit led. 2. to throw away, abandon, or get rid of as no longer valuable or useful. verb intransitive. 3. Cards. to make a discard.
