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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
discard .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective thrown away
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Examples
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All tiles must be "_punged_" or "_chowed_" _as they are discarded_; for a tile discarded by a player and allowed to remain in discard until the next player discards, becomes "dead" and _cannot be_ touched during the rest of the game.
Pung Chow The Game of a Hundred Intelligences. Also known as Mah-Diao, Mah-Jong, Mah-Cheuk, Mah-Juck and Pe-Ling Lew Lysle Harr
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Recycled materials are also acceptable, as garbage and debris pose a threat to coastal wildlife that ingest or otherwise become entangled in discarded trash and lost fishing gear.
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That something, I decided, would be to paint actual pixels (in representative square strokes) on the canvas, so that at the very least all residual creativity that might have been discarded from the web process would get a chance of being reused.
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What was once discarded is now the source of warmth, comfort and individual expression.
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The group bounced the phrase around until McConnell came up with: “It will end in discarded lies.”
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The group bounced the phrase around until McConnell came up with: “It will end in discarded lies.”
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As to the stem cell debate, the debate over embryonic stem cells (aside from what Bush has already approved) from embryos to be discarded is about sperm and egg.
Sound Politics: Democrats Pitch on Stem Cell Research Stinks 2006
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Then votes for party under the threshold aren't discarded from the total of the coalition.
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Since I've never been one to remain static long enough to keep a diary, the original concept of a journal format has been discarded from the get-go.
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Janet remembers being told to clear up her bedroom, knee-deep in discarded clothes.
Mrs. Miniver 1939
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