Usually means: Throwing away or getting rid.
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  1. discarding: Merriam-Webster
  2. discarding: Collins English Dictionary
  3. discarding: Vocabulary.com
  4. Discarding, discarding: Wordnik
  5. discarding: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. discarding: Wiktionary
  7. Discarding, discarding: Dictionary.com
  8. discarding: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Discarding: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Discarding: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. discarding: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. discarding: FreeDictionary.org
  13. discarding: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. discarding: Legal dictionary

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  1. discarding: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (discarding)

▸ noun:  The act by which something is discarded; a throwing away.
▸ noun:  (in the plural) Discarded material.

Similar:
throwing away, discardment, throw-out, throw out, discarder, discardure, elimination, dumping, offthrow, shedding, more...

Opposite:
keeping, retaining, preserving, holding onto

Types:
discarding a card, discarding a die, more...

Phrases:
discarding mastitis milk, Armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot, Armour-piercing discarding sabot, a receptacle for discarding refuse, discarding removing ending, more...

Adjectives:
complete, gradual, wholesale, accidental, final, such, selective, total, deliberate, general, rapid

Colors:
    gray,     brown,     beige,     dull green,     rust, more...



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Similar:
throwing away, discardment, throw-out, throw out, discarder, discardure, elimination, dumping, offthrow, shedding, more...

Opposite:
keeping, retaining, preserving, holding onto

Types:
discarding a card, discarding a die, more...

Phrases:
discarding mastitis milk, Armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot, Armour-piercing discarding sabot, a receptacle for discarding refuse, discarding removing ending, more...

Adjectives:
complete, gradual, wholesale, accidental, final, such, selective, total, deliberate, general, rapid

Colors:
    gray,     brown,     beige,     dull green,     rust, more...



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