Discard

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To throw away; reject.
  • v. To throw out (a playing card) from one's hand.
  • v. To play (a card other than a trump) from a suit different from that of the card led.
  • verb-intransitive. To discard a playing card.
  • n. The act of discarding in a card game.
  • n. A discarded playing card.
  • n. One that is discarded or rejected.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. to throw away, to reject
  • n. Anything discarded.
  • n. A discarded playing card in a card game.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To throw out of one's hand, as superfluous cards; to lay aside (a card or cards).
  • v. To cast off as useless or as no longer of service; to dismiss from employment, confidence, or favor; to discharge; to turn away.
  • v. To put or thrust away; to reject.
  • verb-intransitive. To make a discard.
  • n. The act of discarding; also, the card or cards discarded.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In card playing: In some games, to throw aside or reject from the hand, as a card dealt to the player which by the laws of the game is not needed or can be exchanged.
  • In other games, as whist, to throw away on a trick, as a card (not a trump) of a different suit from that led, when one cannot follow suit and cannot or does not wish to trump
  • To dismiss, as from service or employment; cast off.
  • To thrust away; reject: as, to discard prejudices.
  • Synonyms To turn away, discharge.
  • In card-playing, to throw cards out of the hand. See I.
  • n. In card-playing: The act of throwing out of the hand such cards as are unnecessary in the game, or of playing, as in whist, a card not a trump of a different suit from that led.
  • n. The card or cards thrown out of the hand.
  • n. Hence One who or that which is cast out or rejected.
  • n. In poker, the pile of cards made up by the hands which are abandoned without being bet upon, and the cards which have been laid off so as to get others in exchange for them.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. throw or cast away
  • n. getting rid something that is regarded as useless or undesirable
  • n. anything that is cast aside or discarded
  • n. (cards) the act of throwing out a useless card or of failing to follow suit
  • Verb Form
    discarded    discarding    discards   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    displace    discharge    cashier    dismiss    reject    abandon    disused    throw away    dispose    cast away   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bernard    Brossard    Chard    Gerard    Gillard    Girard    Godard    Picard    Yard    ard