discard
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3.9
- noun
- /dɪsˈkɑrd/
:
desecho
- A cheap English mystery novel, some tourist's discard, lies facedown on the floor, pages bent.
- bycatch and discards
- shark discards
- catch and discards
Is the piece of cloth a coveted shawl or a discard?
- Is the piece of cloth a coveted shawl or a discard?
- But yeah, if you're getting a couch for free, it's someone's discard.
Examples
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San Francisco has other options for usable food discards, such as food banks and food rescue programs.
Academic text (1999) -
The library is filled with discards that can be purchased at low prices.
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You can score all kinds of used library discard books for amazingly low prices.
Blog text (26) -
How many times had she and her brother gone through their rooms, sorting, boxing, and shoving discards into the attic?
Fiction book (2000) -
The book-burning librarian, amused by my shock, explained that the books were discards being recycled one last time.
Academic text (1998) -
Many of her old clothes ended up as discards in the donation bin.
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After cleaning the attic, he had a pile of discards ready for the garbage.
Synonyms
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1.0
Material that people throw away after use, like food or packaging
2
2.6
Things like old or broken items that are thrown away
1
4.5
A thing, often clothing, that someone has thrown away
An item that people throw away because they do not want it
Not wanted and often given away
Things people throw away because they are not useful
Small pieces of rubbish left behind in a place
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Etymology
Discard comes from old words that mean to throw away, so a discard is any object someone rejects or throws out. Thinking of it as something 'set aside' helps you see why it means waste or rubbish.