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DISCARDED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Thrown away
Example:
salvaged some thrown-away furniture
Synonyms:
cast-off; discarded; throwaway; thrown-away
Classified under:
Similar:
unwanted (not wanted; not needed)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb discard
Context examples:
The two older girls were a great deal to one another, but each took one of the younger sisters into her keeping and watched over her in her own way, 'playing mother' they called it, and put their sisters in the places of discarded dolls with the maternal instinct of little women.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
When Edward's unhappy match takes place, depend upon it his mother will feel as much as if she had never discarded him; and, therefore every circumstance that may accelerate that dreadful event, must be concealed from her as much as possible.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
This includes an estimated half-a-million marble-sized pieces of junk, while other items, such as discarded rockets and disused parts of space crafts, are much larger.
(Australia Developing Lasers to Track, Destroy Space Junk, VOA)
She cried in general, and she cried in particular over each discarded thing.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
He broke off and began to walk up and down a desolate path of fruit rinds and discarded favors and crushed flowers.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
