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discard definition

dis·card (dis kärd′; for n. dis′kärd′)

transitive verb

  1. Card Games
    1. to remove (a card or cards) from one's hand
    2. to play (a card not a trump and not in the suit led) when holding no cards in the suit led
  2. to throw away, abandon, or get rid of as no longer valuable or useful

Etymology: OFr descarter, prob. < des- + carte: see dis- & card

intransitive verb

Card Games to make a discard

noun

  1. a discarding or being discarded
  2. something discarded
  3. Card Games the card or cards discarded

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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