0 present participle of discard
1 to throw something away or get rid of it because you no longer want or need it:
Discarded food containers and bottles littered the streets.
The pickle and unpickle functions take an additional parameter for the initial state, discarding the final state on completion.
The present manufacturing industry provides services from marketing through sales; however, reclamation, recycling, and discarding of products are normally outside the domain of manufacturing industries.
The next two rules derive the new delta pairs by discarding from new those that are larger than any existing pair in all.
But discarding variance wastefully diminishes statistical power to explain and predict.
However, it has other important uses, such as for obtaining the first solution to a subgoal and discarding others.
She is always discarding the matter, while retaining the form.
Some years have now elapsed since upon a closer scrutiny, reason, altogether incontestable was found for discarding this appendage.
This result does not warrant discarding reading as an effective source for vocabulary growth by assessing its potential only through immediate output tasks.