Word Meanings - DISCARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To throw out of one's hand, as superfluous cards; to lay aside 2. 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

Additional info about word: DISCARD

To throw out of one's hand, as superfluous cards; to lay aside 2. 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. Swift. 3. To put or thrust away; to reject. A man discards the follies of boyhood. I. Taylor. Syn. -- To dismiss; displace; discharge; cashier.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISCARD)

• Abjure
• Renounce
• deny
• apostatize
• discard
• recant
• disclaim
• disavow
• repudiate
• revoke
• retract
• disown
• Dismiss
• Banish
• abandon
• cashier
• send off
• divest
• discharge
• Reject
• Repel
• renounce
• throw by
• castaway
• decline
• refuse
• exclude
• Repudiate
• Disavow
• castoff
• abjure
• divorce
• Shelve
• swamp
• stifle
• shift

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DISCARD)

• Grant
• afford
• yield
• concede
• acquiesce
• Fix
• fasten
• locate
• insert
• pitch
• plant
• place

Related words: (words related to DISCARD)

• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• REPELLENCE; REPELLENCY
  The principle of repulsion; the quality or capacity of repelling; repulsion.
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• DIVORCEABLE
  Capable of being divorced.
• STIFLED
  Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
• DIVESTITURE
  The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
• PITCHERFUL
  The quantity a pitcher will hold.
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• DIVESTMENT
  The act of divesting.
• PITCHINESS
  Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• PITCHFORK
  A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• DISAVOWANCE
  Disavowal. South.
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• DISAVOWMENT
  Disavowal. Wotton.
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• IMMIGRANT
  One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.