Antonyms for discard
dɪˈskɑrd; ˈdɪs kɑrddis·card

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1. discardverb

   Synonyms:
   eliminate, throw away, get rid of, cast away, dispose, dismiss

2. discardverb

   to throw away, to reject

   Synonyms:
   throw away, eliminate, cast away, dismiss, dispose, get rid of

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. discard

   Abjure, discard, forswear, recall, recant, renounce, retract, and revoke, like abandon, imply some previous connection. Renounce (Latin re, back, and nuntio, bear a message) is to declare against and give up formally and definitively; as, to renounce the pomps and vanities of the world. Recant (Latin re, back, and canto, sing) is to take back or deny formally and publicly, as a belief that one has held or professed. Retract (Latin re, back, and traho, draw) is to take back something that one has said as not true or as what one is not ready to maintain; as, to retract a charge or accusation; one recants what was especially his own, he retracts what was directed against another. Repudiate (Latin re, back, or away, and pudeo, feel shame) is primarily to renounce as shameful, hence to divorce, as a wife; thus in general to put away with emphatic and determined repulsion; as, to repudiate a debt. To deny is to affirm to be not true or not binding; as, to deny a statement or a relationship; or to refuse to grant as something requested; as, his mother could not deny him what he desired. To discard is to cast away as useless or worthless; thus, one discards a worn garment; a coquette discards a lover. Revoke (Latin re, back, and voco, call), etymologically the exact equivalent of the English recall, is to take back something given or granted; as, to revoke a command, a will, or a grant; recall may be used in the exact sense of revoke, but is often applied to persons, as revoke is not; we recall a messenger and revoke the order with which he was charged. Abjure (Latin ab, away, and juro, swear) is etymologically the exact equivalent of the Saxon forswear, signifying to put away formally and under oath, as an error, heresy, or evil practise, or a condemned and detested person. A man abjures his religion, recants his belief, abjures or renounces his allegiance, repudiates another's claim, renounces his own, retracts a false statement. A person may deny, disavow, disclaim, disown what has been truly or falsely imputed to him or supposed to be his. He may deny his signature, disavow the act of his agent, disown his child; he may repudiate a just claim or a base suggestion. A native of the United States can not abjure or renounce allegiance to the Queen of England, but will promptly deny or repudiate it. Compare ABANDON.

   Antonyms:
   acknowledge, advocate, assert, avow, cherish, claim, defend, hold, maintain, own, proclaim, retain, uphold, vindicate

   Synonyms:
   abandon, abjure, deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, forswear, recall, recant, refuse, reject, renounce, repudiate, retract, revoke

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Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. discardnoun

   anything that is cast aside or discarded

   Synonyms:
   throwing away

2. discardnoun

   (cards) the act of throwing out a useless card or of failing to follow suit

   Synonyms:
   throwing away

3. discard, throwing awayverb

   getting rid something that is regarded as useless or undesirable

   Synonyms:
   throwing away

4. discard, fling, toss, toss out, toss away, chuck out, cast aside, dispose, throw out, cast out, throw away, cast away, put awayverb

   throw or cast away

   "Put away your worries"

   Synonyms:
   throw out, toss out, lag, put to sleep, convulse, qualify, banish, tuck away, incarcerate, expel, thresh, flip, toss away, boot out, ban, kick out, slash, lock up, lock, turf out, put aside, cast away, remand, advance, shut up, dispose, blackball, chuck, jactitate, cast, splurge, cast aside, put behind bars, sky, throw, thresh about, oust, imprison, immure, jail, exclude, thrash about, dismiss, shut away, cast out, jug, pitch, chuck out, thrash, toss, throw away, shun, drum out, turn out, gaol, incline, fling, drop, ostracise, lock in, lock away, ostracize, tuck in, eject, cast off, throw off, shake off, put away, shed

How to use discard in a sentence?

1. Lao Tzu:

   The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial they abide with realities, they remain not with what is showy. The one they discard, the other they hold.

2. The Michigan Republican:

   I've spent my entire career fighting for freedom in the Army and as a state legislator, yet Joe Biden wants to discard me because I oppose his coercive forced vaccination mandate, i believe individuals should be able to freely give their consent, without fear of retaliation or coercion before receiving the Covid vaccine.

3. Ryan Pack:

   Why do people keep things? Because they need them, because they want them, because they're too afraid to get rid of them, because they're too lazy to discard them, because they don't have the time to dispose of them, because they just don't care enough to remove them, because they are unable to shed them for some reason.

4. Jeffrey Veale:

   People who have FSGS, up until this point they’d say, ‘The recipient has FSGS — now we have to discard the kidney,’.

5. Lao Tzu:

   While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion Let nature take its course. By letting each thing act in accordance with its own nature, everything that needs to be done gets done.

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