discard's Usage Examples:

(5) Raw silk skeins are often re-reeled; and in this process part has to be discarded: this being known to the trade as gum-waste.

To find a threepenny dodger was very lucky, as was finding a discarded horse shoe on our rough country roads.

Whose justifiable disgust at the sight of discarded chewing gum or of dog turds on the pavement made him find alternative routes home.

discarded syringes and needles.

In the first place we shall discard all manuscripts which are derived by copying from other extant manuscripts.

I know the motel where they are staying so the cell phone I've already discarded wasn't necessary.

Aristotle, discarding the transcendentalism of Plato, naturally retained from Plato's teaching the original Socratic method of induction from and verification by common opinion.

You may be a cop, but you're also an obnoxious slob who's soiling a clean carpet with your discarded body parts.

"The sea shore is too far to the east so I fear she'll be remanded to a roadside bier of Kudzu and discarded fast food wrappers.

The cup itself is made from a crack-resistant rubber coated plastic so it can take the punishment when a toddler discards the cup from the highchair or while walking around.

knapping from pebbles was to fashion new tools on previously discarded blanks left by earlier generations.

And so the newer school discard acquired characters and all the Lamarckian factors and leave the board clear for "mutations.

Very different in character is the Catalan map of 1375, for its author, discarding Ptolemy, shows India as a peninsula.

Synonyms:

liquidize, jettison, cast out, toss away, toss, deep-six, de-access, get rid of, put away, dispose, junk, throw out, dump, retire, chuck out, throw away, sell out, trash, toss out, waste, cast aside, give it the deep six, abandon, scrap, remove, sell up, close out, unlearn, cast away, fling,

Antonyms:

string, iodinate, pack, calcify, ionate,