discarded

[dih-skahr-did]

adjective

1. having been disposed of, cast out, or put aside.

   The fire is believed to have been started by a discarded match or cigarette.

   The sprocket wheel and chain were scavenged from a discarded bicycle.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of discard.

Other Word Forms

• undiscarded adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of discarded¹

discard ( def. ) + -ed ²

Example Sentences

There are no discarded once-frozen coffee drinks sweating rings onto wooden tables; no empty Styrofoam takeout containers littering kitchen counters mere inches away from the trash can.

From Los Angeles Times

The lawyers also argued that the multi-million punitive damages award should be discarded or significantly reduced because such punishment requires clear evidence of "egregious wrongdoing" by the manufacturer.

From BBC

Singer declined to comment on reports about the discarded ashes.

From Los Angeles Times

A Canadian man dug through piles of rubbish at his local dump in a valiant, romantic - and ultimately successful - effort to find his wife's accidentally discarded wedding rings.

From BBC

Among the holes, some dug on top of the graves themselves, were discarded bits of old metal - a telltale sign that those practising in the "darker underbelly" of metal detecting had been here.

From BBC

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