When you discard something, you get rid of it. If your closet is overflowing with clothes you haven't worn since 1992, why not discard some of them?
To throw out of one's hand, as superfluous cards; to lay aside (a card or cards).
Noun
getting rid something that is regarded as useless or undesirable
Noun
(cards) the act of throwing out a useless card or to failing to follow suit
Noun
anything that is cast aside or discarded
Verb
throw or cast away; "Put away your worries"
v. t.
To throw out of one's hand, as superfluous cards; to
lay aside (a card or cards).
v. t.
To cast off as useless or as no longer of service; to
dismiss from employment, confidence, or favor; to discharge; to turn
away.
v. t.
To put or thrust away; to reject.
v. i.
To make a discard.
n.
The act of discarding; also, the card or cards discarded.
Discard
They blame the favorites, and think it nothing extraordinary that the queen should . . . resolve to discard them.3.
A man discards the follies of boyhood.
Discard
Discard
To throw out of one's hand, as superfluous cards; to lay aside (a card or cards).
To make a discard.
The act of discarding; also, the card or cards discarded.
Usage Examples
There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.
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Other Usage ExamplesIn the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.
I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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