discardedadj.
/dɪˈskɑːdᵻd/, U.S. /dᵻˈskɑrdəd/ 1. That has been rejected, cast aside, or abandoned as no longer needed or wanted.
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the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [adjective]
shedc1430
castaway?1542
outcastc1560
discarded1593
moulted1776
out-thrown1869
junked1915
the mind > language > statement > refusal > [adjective] > rejecting > rejected
refusea1413
reproveda1425
offcastc1450
disallowed1539
repudiate1543
rejected1567
unpicked1568
unelecteda1586
disavowed1591
discarded1593
disclaimed1595
repudiated1610
unaccepted1612
refused1790
reject1955
1593 T. Churchyard Challenge 255 This discarded Gentlewoman went awalking twentye yeares, and yet cannot finde the waie home to her husband.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. iv. 12 Welcome home againe discarded faith. View more context for this quotation
1724 Love upon Tick xxvii. 92 The rebuked, discarded Lover shall henceforwards, in these Sheets, find a cordial Balm to ease an aching Heart.
1792 P. W. Fogg Elementa Anglicana I. v. 51 In this method [sc. syncope] the comma or apostrophe is put in the place of the discarded letter or letters.
1845 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 9 214 When the habitation..becomes too circumscribed..he [sc. a crab] is constrained to desert it for some more suitable shell; leaving the discarded one..there.
1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 66 We have again fallen into the old discarded error.
1938 Amer. Home June 23/1 For the four-and five-year busybodies, we fitted up a discarded piano box for a playhouse.
1971 ‘J. Ripley’ Davis doesn't live Here 124 The discarded mistress—the ‘woman scorned’—motive.
2009 Time Out N.Y. 18 June 54/1 A diva-esque bedroom, complete with cat food, discarded chocolate wrappers and hundreds of trinkets.
2. Of a card or cards: rejected from a hand; thrown down.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [adjective] > general attributes of card
discarded1612
unplayed1775
called?1870
false1879
unshuffled1901
hot2004
1612 S. Rid Art of Iugling sig. D2v Stealing the stock or the discarded Cardes.
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1957) III. 261 We have seene in our age Kings discarded, and..the discarded cards taken in againe and win the game.
?1770 ‘De Chateauneuf’ New Treat. Piquet vii. 65 Oblige him to lay his discarded cards at a distance from the rest.
1816 S. W. Singer Researches Hist. Playing Cards 239 The dealer for whom the discarded cards count.
1864 W. B. Dick Amer. Hoyle lxvi. 459 The player having the nine of trumps, may exchange the trump and play the card taken up, without turning down the discarded nine-spot.
1913 Everybody's Mag. 28 184 Denny shrugged and gathered in the discarded hand.
1992 Wisconsin State Jrnl. (Nexis) 12 Feb. a2 Some machines allow players to raise their bets before their discarded cards are redrawn.
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society > occupation and work > lack of work > [adjective] > dismissing or discharging > dismissed or discharged
discarded1631
time-expired1822
paid-off1894
sacked1934
pink-slipped1957
1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies viii. 57 All that is left of a decayed Gentleman, a maimed Souldier, or a discarded Servingman.
1660 H. P. Coffin Opened (title page) Written by a discarded officer of the army.
1718 Free-thinker No. 76. 1 A discarded Servant has it in his Power to discredit his Master or Mistress.
1735 S.-Carolina Gaz. 25 Jan. 2/2 The Numbers of Corn-cutters, Tooth-drawers, discarded Sea-Surgeons, Barbers, and Wise Women, who..plead a Call from within to practise.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 13 The wisdom and virtue of the discarded statesman.
1891 Justice of Peace Apr. 210/2 A brother of the discarded servant afterwards complained of the master keeping his old servant out of a situation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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