Other forms: discarded, discarding, discards
To discard something is to throw away what you no longer want. Out of the hand, out of the bag, gone.
The word is a shade formal for everyday rubbish, so you meet it most in writing and in instructions: discard the outer leaves, discarded packaging, a discarded shoe at the roadside. Card games gave it to us and still use it precisely, since you discard a card by laying it aside and the pile is the discards. Writing about ideas uses it to mean reject, as in the theory was discarded within a decade.
From dis + card. Compare Spanish descartar.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Sharper Verbs, A Man Called Ove
First appears in chapter 10 of A Man Called Ove.
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