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English

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Etymology

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Fromdis- +‎card. CompareSpanishdescartar.

Pronunciation

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(verb)
- (UK)IPA^(key): /dɪsˈkɑːd/,/dɪˈskɑːd/
- Audio(Southern England): (file)
- (US)IPA^(key): /dɪsˈkɑɹd/,/dɪˈskɑɹd/
- Rhymes:-ɑː(ɹ)d
(noun)
- (UK)IPA^(key): /ˈdɪskɑːd/
- Audio(Southern England): (file)
- (US)IPA^(key): /ˈdɪskɑɹd/
- Audio(US): (file)

Verb

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discard (third-person singular simple presentdiscards,present participlediscarding,simple past and past participlediscarded)

(transitive) Tothrow away, toreject.
Synonyms:cast aside,cast away,dismiss,jettison,dispose of,eliminate,get rid of,throw aside,throw away,throw down;see alsoThesaurus:junk
- 1832, [Isaac Taylor],Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball,→OCLC:
  A mandiscards the follies of boyhood.
- 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, inRail, pages67–68:
  My next stop is Oxford, which has also grown with the addition of new platforms to accommodate the Chiltern Railways service to London viaBicester - although, short sightedly, the planned electrification from Paddington was canned. Evidence of the volte-face can be seen along the line at places such asRadley, where mast piles are already sunk or liediscarded at the lineside.
(intransitive, card games) To make adiscard; to throw out acard.
To dismiss fromemployment,confidence, orfavour; todischarge.
Synonyms:fire,let go,sack;see alsoThesaurus:lay off
- 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 […], published1711,→OCLC,page65:
  […] 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 todiſcard them.

Derived terms

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Translations

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to discard, set aside—seeremove

to throw away, reject

Afrikaans:weggooi
Armenian:please add this translation if you can
Basque:baztertu
Bulgarian:захвърлям (bg)(zahvǎrljam),изхвърлям (bg)(izhvǎrljam)
Chinese:
Mandarin:丟棄 /丢弃 (zh)(diūqì),拋棄 /抛弃 (zh)(pāoqì)
Czech:odhodit
Danish:kassere
Dutch:verwerpen (nl),afdanken (nl),afleggen (nl),opzijzetten (nl)
Esperanto:please add this translation if you can
Finnish:hylätä (fi),heittää menemään (fi),heittää pois,hävittää (fi)
French:rejeter (fr),écarter (fr)
Galician:desbotar,refugar,rexeitar (gl)
Georgian:please add this translation if you can
German:verwerfen (de)
Greek:απορρίπτω (el)(aporrípto),παραμερίζω (el)(paramerízo),ανατινάζω (el)(anatinázo)
Ancient:ἀποβάλλω(apobállō)
Hungarian:elvet (hu)
Japanese:捨てる (ja)(すてる, suteru),棄てる (ja)(すてる, suteru)
Khmer:please add this translation if you can
Korean:버리다 (ko)(beorida)
Lao:ເຂັ່ຍ(khia),ເຂັ່ຽ(khīa)
Latin:rejiciō,abicio (la)
Macedonian:фр́ли(fŕli),о́тфрли(ótfrli),и́сфрли(ísfrli),о́дбие(ódbie),о́тстрани(ótstrani)
Malayalam:ഉപേക്ഷിക്കുക (ml)(upēkṣikkuka)
Maori:whakarei,ākiri,paetau,hoehoe,ruke
Mongolian:please add this translation if you can
Polish:zrzucić (pl)
Portuguese:descartar (pt)
Romanian:arunca (ro)
Russian:отбра́сывать (ru) impf(otbrásyvatʹ),отбро́сить (ru) pf(otbrósitʹ),выбра́сывать (ru) impf(vybrásyvatʹ),вы́бросить (ru)(výbrositʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:odbiti (sh) pf,odbijati (sh) impf
Slovak:odhodiť,zahodiť,vyhodiť
Slovene:zavreči
Sotho:lahla
Spanish:desechar (es),descartar (es)
Swedish:kasta (sv),avfärda (sv),slänga (sv)
Telugu:నిరాకరించు (te)(nirākariñcu)
Thai:please add this translation if you can
Tonga (Zambia):sowa
Ukrainian:відкидати(vidkydaty),відмовлятися(vidmovljatysja)
Vietnamese:vứt (vi),loại bỏ (vi)

to throw out a playing card

Bulgarian:чистя (bg)(čistja)
Finnish:poistaa (fi),poistaa kädestä,laskea pois,heittää pois
French:défausser (fr)
Galician:descartar
German:abwerfen (de),ablegen (de)
Greek:πετώ (el)(petó)
Mongolian:модоо хаях(modoo xajax)

Noun

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discard (pluraldiscards)

Anything discarded.
A discardedplaying card in acard game.
(programming) Atemporaryvariable used toreceive a value of no importance and unable to beread later.
- 2017, Andrew Troelsen, Philip Japikse,Pro C# 7: With .NET and .NET Core, page120:
  Discards can be used without parameters, with tuples, with pattern matching (Chapters 6 and 8), or even as stand-alone variables.