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{
"term": "discard",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "discard",
"heSheIt": "discards"
},
"pastSimple": "discarded",
"pastParticiple": "discarded",
"ingForm": "discarding"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to get rid of something that you no longer want or need",
"sensetop": "discard somebody/somethingdiscard somebody/something as something",
"labels": "(formal)(figurative)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The room was littered with discarded newspapers.",
"contextForm": "discard somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "He had discarded his jacket because of the heat."
},
{
"text": "She could now discard all thought of promotion."
},
{
"text": "10 per cent of the data was discarded as unreliable.",
"contextForm": "discard somebody/something as something"
},
{
"text": "Older managers have been discarded in favour of younger people."
},
{
"text": "Rose quickly discarded the idea."
},
{
"text": "These ideas have now been completely discarded."
},
{
"text": "the parts of the animal that people may simply discard as inedible"
},
{
"text": "Most of the data was discarded as unreliable."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["completely", "entirely", "largely"],
"preposition": ["in favour/favor of"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to get rid of a card that you do not want",
"sensetop": "discard (something)",
"examples": [],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["completely", "entirely", "largely"],
"preposition": ["in favour/favor of"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈskɑːd/",
"audio": "di/discard/discard__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈskɑːdz/",
"audio": "di/discard/discards__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈskɑːdɪd/",
"audio": "di/discard/discarded__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈskɑːdɪŋ/",
"audio": "di/discard/discarding__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈskɑːrd/",
"audio": "di/discard/discard__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈskɑːrdz/",
"audio": "di/discard/discards__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈskɑːrdɪd/",
"audio": "di/discard/discarded__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈskɑːrdɪŋ/",
"audio": "di/discard/discarding__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late 16th cent. (originally in the sense ‘reject (a playing card)’): from dis- (expressing removal) + the noun card."
}