discard

Meaning

Verb

1. To throw away, to reject.
2. To make a discard; to throw out a card.
3. To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge.

Noun

1. Anything discarded.
2. A discarded playing card in a card game.
3. A temporary variable used to receive a value of no importance and unable to be read later.

Concepts

discard

throw away

reject

abandon

throw

toss

get rid of

cast away

dismiss

desert

cast aside

throw out

dispose

forsake

leave

cashier

dump

cast off

refuse

terminate

give up

shed

lose

relinquish

jettison

renounce

fling

cast

abrogate

disallow

disavow

shun

remove

ditch

junk

put away

toss away

toss out

chuck

scrap

abort

decline

rebut

refute

relay

repress

repulse

resend

spurn

vomit

withhold

abolish

eschew

abandonment

renunciation

expel

eliminate

throwing away

cast out

chuck out

slough

sack

repudiate

turn down

put aside

trash

take off

send back

throw up

oust

put a stop to

postpone

table

annulment

breaking

disposal

reversing

revocation

tearing up and discarding

omit

relinquishment

sacrifice

outcast

hence throw away

cast away or off

resign

banish

offcast

discharge

disapprove

exclude

despise

quit

annul

cancel

countermand

cross out

disannul

do away with

strike out

subtract

disown

throw down

depose

discharge to dismiss

miscarry

send down

fail

overrule

scout

override

set aside

shelve

sidestep

sidetrack

stand aside

fleet

fly

wing

without consideration

without regard for

cobble

condemned stores

foozle

off melt

off-heat

rejected material

spoil

throw-away

throw-outs

waste products

wastrel

pitch

exile

separate

disclaim

delete

leave off

retire

desolate

dishonour

disqualify

drop

jilt

overturn

redline

reprobate

rule out

scratch

send packing

strand

vote out

defection

desertion

disapproval

disavowal

disownment

forsaking

nonacceptance

rejection

repudiation

break off

throw off

dispense with

dispose of

leave behind

come off

86

fling away

sluff

through with

divorce

leave out

let go

release

skip

die

select

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɪsˈkɑːd/

Etymology

From dis- + card. Compare Spanish descartar.