Crossword clues for discarded
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Discard \Dis*card"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Discarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Discarding.]
(Card Playing) To throw out of one's hand, as superfluous cards; to lay aside (a card or cards).
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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.
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To put or thrust away; to reject.
A man discards the follies of boyhood.
--I. Taylor.Syn: To dismiss; displace; discharge; cashier.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: discard)
WordNet
Usage examples of "discarded".
Frictions that had been caused by disagreement about the space port were mainly discarded by the generally held desire to get on terms with the aliens.
Poor Damia, she said in a self-derisive tone, ever since that encounter with that dreadful mind-alien, she's been nothing but a T-, T T- Damia tried out the different grades for size and then discarded them all, along with her histrionics.
She oblig ingly rummaged in the trash and came up with several discarded papers.
All too vivid in his memory was his last sight of it, littered with what the heavyworlders had ruthlessly discarded: the little hyracotherium's body, neck snapped in a totally unnecessary display of brutality.
With an air of finality, he picked up the discarded pods of hadrosaur nuts and placed the smallest one near the giffs' cave, the next largest on the edge of the heavyworlders' plateau and the largest right in the midst of the grid.
We demand that this witness's testimony be discarded, and that she be returned to the proper authorities for trial on Diplo!
Caissa was on her feet in an instant, reaching for the weapons hanging from her discarded coverall.
Round ones had long since been discarded as unsuitable, though I often heard Alun say that he forged the best nails from Venta to Eburacum.
Then, making a bed of discarded cushions and pillows, she settled herself down for a rest.
The human galaxy teemed with such prizes, yet the Clan fleet must skulk about the outworlds, gnawing discarded scraps: border worlds, miserable settlements of poverty-stricken exile, like Bethel.
The Clan fighter leaped back half a dozen paces, out of reach of the blades, but also farther from the discarded equipment belt.
And yet no technology must exist for repair: the perimeter of the field was littered with pieces of discarded, broken implements.
Carialle showed them pieces of tiny ships, strewn like discarded toys.
That sounded much nicer than the surrounding landscape, which was bare and dusty where it wasn't covered with discarded junk from hijacked spaceships.
But training and sensitivity had sharpened many "hunches" into definitive perceptions: Check the cellar of that building for dangerous refuse, the janitor is lazy and has not discarded all possible combustibles.