Fertility centers discard relatively few excess embryos.
Remove fillet from skillet and, using a fork and knife, remove skin from salmon and discard.
Every crisis makes us discard our traditional way of looking at things.
Every day you face a choice of whether to recycle or simply discard an item.
Pull off and discard long, spongy gills from sides of body.
Hold the peppers under running water and peel off and discard the skin.
But a bound portfolio is the sort of thing your committee's likely to want to discard.
Remove and discard the exterior leaves and the heart of the cabbage.
discard any with cracked shells before using in recipes.
We want you to discard your color palette and think only in shadows.
British Dictionary definitions for discard
discard
verb (dɪsˈkɑːd)
1.
(transitive) to get rid of as useless or undesirable
2.
(cards) to throw out (a card or cards) from one's hand
3.
(cards) to play (a card not of the suit led nor a trump) when unable to follow suit
noun (ˈdɪskɑːd)
4.
a person or thing that has been cast aside
5.
(cards) a discarded card
6.
the act of discarding
Derived Forms
discarder, noun
Word Origin and History for discard
v.
1590s, literally "to throw a card away," from dis- "away" + card (n.). Figurative use (in a non-gaming sense) is first recorded 1580s. In the card-playing sense, decard is attested by 1550s. Related: Discarded; discarding. As a noun, from 1742.