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verb

Discard v. t. (past & past part. discarded; pres. part. discarding)

(Card Playing) To throw out of one's hand, as superfluous cards; to lay aside (a card or cards).

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."

To put or thrust away; to reject. "A man discards the follies of boyhood."

Synonyms: To dismiss; displace; discharge; cashier.

Discard v. i. (Card Playing) To make a discard.

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Etymology of 'Discarded'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Discarded" Quotes from Famous Books

... Mountjoy had last seen her. Her artificial complexion was gone. The discarded rouge that had once overlaid her cheeks, through a long succession of years, had left the texture of the skin coarse, and had turned the colour of it to a dull yellowish tinge. Her hair, once so skilfully darkened, was now permitted to tell the truth, and revealed the sober colouring of age, ...

— Blind Love • Wilkie Collins

... By the time her turn came too, the annual income was runnin' into six figures. Besides, Doris was the pet. And when Pa and Ma Ull sat down to pick out a young ladies' culture fact'ry for her the process was simple. They discarded all but three of the catalogues, savin' them that was printed on the thickest paper and havin' the most halftone pictures, and then put the tag on the one where the rates was highest. Near Washington, I think it was; anyway, somewhere South,—board and tuition, two thousand dollars and up; ...

— Torchy, Private Sec. • Sewell Ford

... which had gradually to be lightened until they came to be merely nominal. Graver issues were raised when such ancient customs as infant marriage and the degradation of child widows were challenged. The ferment of new ideas was spreading amongst the Brahmans themselves. Some had openly discarded their ancestral faith, and many more were moved to search their own scriptures for some interpretation of the law less inconsistent with Western standards. It seemed at one moment as if, under the inspiration of men like Ranade in the Deccan and Tagore ...

— Indian Unrest • Valentine Chirol

... once—a very good little "Manchester Donkey Pump," but as noisy as they make 'em—and it became a question whether she should be discarded for an injector; she was bolted to a wall in the basement of a block of offices and could be heard throughout the building, and my employer told me that he would willingly give a 5l. note to anyone who would stop the noise. The donkey was vertical; I took off ...

— The Stoker's Catechism • W. J. Connor

... circumstance of war were from the outset laid aside, especially in the matter of clothing; but though in that direction almost all regimental distinctions, and distinctions of rank, were deliberately discarded, so that scarcely a speck of martial red was anywhere to be seen, the clothing actually supplied proved astonishingly short-lived. The roughness of the way soon turned it into rags and tatters, and disreputable holes appeared precisely where holes ought not to be. On this very ...

— With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back • Edward P. Lowry

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