discarded

Verb

discard (third-person singular simple present discards, present participle discarding, simple past and past participle discarded)

1. (transitive) To throw away, to reject.
   • A man discards the follies of boyhood.1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   cast aside, cast away, dismiss, jettison, dispose of, eliminate, get rid of, throw aside, throw away, throw down

2. (intransitive) To make a discard; to throw out a card.
3. To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge.
   • […] They blame the Favourites in point of Policy, and think it nothing extraordinary, that the Queen ſhould be at an end of Her Patience, and reſolve to diſcard them.1711 December 8 (Gregorian calendar), [Jonathan Swift], The Conduct of the Allies, and of the Late Ministry, in Beginning and Carrying on the Present War, 4th edition, London: […] John Morphew […]...

   Synonyms:

   fire, let go, sack, axe, can, decruit, dehire, remove, discharge, dismiss

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