discardverb
uk/dɪˈskɑːd/us/dɪˈskɑːrd/[ T ] to throw something away or get rid of it because you no longer want or need it:
Discarded food containers and bottles littered the streets.
[ I or T ] to get rid of a card you are holding during a card game
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Removing and getting rid of things
- abandon
- banish
- be scattered to the four winds idiom
- bin
- cast sb/sth aside/away/off
- fling sth/sb out
- flush sth out
- fly-tipping
- free sb from/of sth
- haemodialysis
- junk
- pension
- scrap
- shuffle
- throw the baby out with the bathwater idiom
- toss sth aside
- toss sth out
- turf sth out
- unplug
- weed
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Card games
discardnoun [ C ]
uk/dɪˈskɑːd/us/dɪˈskɑːrd/in a card game, a card that you have got rid of
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Card games
- bridge
- canasta
- card sharp
- deal
- dealer
- diamond
- flush
- full house
- grand slam
- jack
- joker
- pass
- pool
- rummy
- shuffle
- singleton
- snap
- strip poker
- suit
- trump
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