Definitions for discard

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discard dis·card

Spelling: [verb dih-skahrd; noun dis-kahrd]

IPA: /verb dɪˈskɑrd; noun ˈdɪs kɑrd/

Discard is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 168 anagrams from letters in discard (acddirs).

Definitions for discard

noun

1. the act of discarding.
2. a person or thing that is cast out or rejected.
3. Cards. a card or cards discarded.

verb (used with object)

1. to cast aside or dispose of; get rid of:
2. Cards. to throw out (a card or cards) from one's hand. to play (a card, not a trump, of a different suit from that of the card led).

verb (used without object)

1. Cards. to discard a card or cards.

Origin of discard

First recorded in 1580-90; dis-¹ + card¹

Examples for discard

Anyone walking down a Manhattan street on trash day knows that New Yorkers discard some spectacular things.

discard your alcohol and dispose of your pork “The Muslims Are Coming!”

Besides; if you are not filial, sir, if you discard that duty, you are at least—hum—not a Christian?

Her father would not discard his afflicted, his repentant child.

Then, eager to discard the subject, he spoke of other things.

So maybe what I've really got here is an Old Master discard being used – by me, the museum visitor – as a modern objet trouvé.

And in a way that was right, because he was keen to save the best bits of it and to discard the worst.

If you are resolute and singleminded, you will at once discard the latter two.

In camp you will discard it because it will impede the swing of your arms.

His past lives all display a remarkable bloodlust, one he continues to discard.