DISCARD

v. n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To throw out of one's hand, as superfluous cards; to lay aside (a card or cards).

2.
v.

To cast off as useless or as no longer of service; to dismiss from employment, confidence, or favor; to discharge; to turn away. They blame the favorites, and think it nothing extraordinary that the queen should . . . resolve to discard them. Swift.

3.
v.

To put or thrust away; to reject. A man discards the follies of boyhood. I. Taylor.

4.
v.

To make a discard.

5.
n.

The act of discarding; also, the card or cards discarded.

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