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decards

decards is the third-person singular simple present indicative of decard.

Meaning of decard

Verb

decard (third-person singular simple present decards, present participle decarding, simple past and past participle decarded)

  1. (obsolete) To discard (get rid of a card).
    • At trump, saint, and such other like, cutting at the neck is a great vantage, so is cutting by a bum card (finely) under and over, stealing the stock of the decarded cards, if there be broad laws beforced aforehand.1532, Gilbert Walker, A Manifest Detection of the moste vyle and detestable use of Diceplay, and other practises lyke the same, Democritus
  2. (obsolete) To discard (throw away or reject)
    • Therefore these kalendars of doubts I commend as excellent things; so that there be this caution used, that when they be so throughly sifted and brought to resolution, they be from thenceforth omitted, decarded, and not continued to cherish and encourage men in doubting.1605, Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, volume 2, page 54

Questions about decards

What is decards the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Decards is the third-person singular simple present indicative of decard.

Words near decards in the dictionary

  1. decarded
  2. decardinalize
  3. decardinalized
  4. decardinalizing
  5. decarding
  6. decards
  7. decare
  8. decarepeat
  9. decarepeats
  10. decares
  11. DeCarlo

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