DISCARDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does discarded mean? 

• DISCARDED (adjective)
  The adjective DISCARDED has 1 sense:

1. thrown away

  Familiarity information: DISCARDED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISCARDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Thrown away

Synonyms:

cast-off; discarded; throwaway; thrown-away

Context example:

salvaged some thrown-away furniture

Similar:

unwanted (not wanted; not needed)

 Context examples 

The meeting has heard that a laser using energy from light radiation to move discarded objects in space could be ready for use within a year.

(Australia Developing Lasers to Track, Destroy Space Junk, VOA)

The plastic pellets, often derived from synthetic clothing, vehicle tyres, bags, cups and other discarded waste, are commonly found on beaches and in oceans around the world.

(Microplastic pollution adds to oceans’ problems, scidev.net)

Watermelon rind, usually discarded as waste, has been shown by researchers in Pakistan to be capable of cheaply and efficiently removing arsenic from groundwater.

(Watermelon rind a cheap filter for arsenic in groundwater, SciDev.Net)

About two-thirds of this total — 6.3 billion tonnes — has been discarded as waste, while 2.6 billion tonnes is still in use, according to a study published in 2017 in Science Advances.

(Scientists develop biodegradable plastic from cassava starch, SciDev.Net)

Everywhere was a thick litter of discarded and ragged garments, old sea-boots, leaky oilskins—all the worthless forecastle dunnage of a long voyage.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Ethnic origin has become a popular classification in statistics, where the concept of race has been largely discarded.

(Ethnic Origin, NCI Thesaurus)

While tiny fragments of plastic are the most numerous, nearly half of the weight of rubbish is composed of discarded fishing nets.

(Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch Growing Rapidly, Study Finds, VOA)

The tent they had discarded at Dyea in order to travel light.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He slunk forlornly through the deserted camp, smelling the rubbish-heaps and the discarded rags and tags of the gods.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He usually continues in office till a worse can be found; but the very moment he is discarded, his successor, at the head of all the Yahoos in that district, young and old, male and female, come in a body, and discharge their excrements upon him from head to foot.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)