discarded
USdis-KAR-did/dɪsˈkɑɹdɪd/UKdis-KAH-did/dɪsˈkɑːdɪd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of discard.
The committee discarded the proposal after a brief discussion.
Several outdated records were discarded during the system upgrade.
Note
One spelling does double duty, and the company it keeps tells you which job it is doing. After has, had or a form of be it is the participle (had discarded, was discarded). Standing alone after a subject it is the past tense. Card players use it without an object (she discarded and drew again), while elsewhere it wants one. As a modifier it labels what has been thrown away: discarded drafts.
discarded is a form of discard
discard, verb: To throw something away or reject it as useless or unwanted. Full entry
- Forms
- discarddiscards he/she/itdiscarding -ing formdiscarded past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- discard → discarded: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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