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See definition of discarding on Dictionary.com
  • as inomitting
  • as indisposal
  • as indumping

synonyms for discarding

  • canceling
  • disregarding
  • excepting
  • excluding
  • ignoring
  • missing
  • neglecting
  • overlooking
  • precluding
  • repudiating
  • slighting
  • withholding
  • not including
  • not naming
  • passing over
  • clearance
  • demolition
  • destruction
  • disposition
  • dumping
  • removal
  • transfer
  • conveyance
  • demolishing
  • dispensation
  • ejection
  • relegation
  • relinquishment
  • riddance
  • sacrifice
  • sale
  • selling
  • trading
  • transference
  • vending
  • auctioning
  • bartering
  • destroying
  • dispatching
  • jettison
  • junking
  • scrapping
On this page you'll find 62 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to discarding, such as: canceling, disregarding, excepting, excluding, ignoring, and missing.

antonyms for discarding

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  • including
  • inserting
  • mentioning
  • building
  • construction
  • beginning
  • hold
  • keeping
  • retention
  • start
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    How to use discarding in a sentence

    In doing this he has the concurrence of all theists in discarding every god save one—his own.
    THEISM OR ATHEISMCHAPMAN COHEN
    We gather heroes as we go, if we are among the growing: our constancy is shown in the not discarding of our old ones.
    LORD ORMONT AND HIS AMINTA, COMPLETEGEORGE MEREDITH
    As early as 1586, at the siege of Zutphen, we find officers discarding their armour and keeping only the cuirass.
    ARMOUR & WEAPONSCHARLES JOHN FFOULKES
    Marin sat and stared at the wall, turning over hypotheses in his mind, discarding them when they failed to make sense.
    STUDENT BODYFLOYD L. WALLACE
    We descended to the cabin, first discarding our outward coverings at the foot of the companion ladder.
    BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY, VOLUME IIVARIOUS
    No one thought of discarding the traditional method, but only of improving it by reducing it to scientific principles.
    THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SINGINGDAVID C. TAYLOR
    Therefore, I shall draw your attention to the use of oil varnish, utterly discarding that of spirit.
    VIOLIN MAKINGWALTER H. MAYSON
    Discarding what is idealistic or unreal in characters and situations, it aims at being true to life.
    ELEMENTARY GUIDE TO LITERARY CRITICISMF. V. N. PAINTER
    Life, like heat, is a mode of motion, and progress consists in discarding a good thing as soon as you have found a better.
    LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF THE GREAT - VOLUME 12ELBERT HUBBARD
    At once, without discarding his clothes, he plunged into the water, and as he did so the charge exploded.
    THE CHILDRENS' STORY OF THE WAR, VOLUME 4 (OF 10)JAMES EDWARD PARROTT
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    WORDS RELATED TO DISCARDING

    • auctioning
    • bartering
    • clearance
    • conveyance
    • demolishing
    • demolition
    • destroying
    • destruction
    • discarding
    • dispatching
    • dispensation
    • disposition
    • dumping
    • ejection
    • jettison
    • junking
    • relegation
    • relinquishment
    • removal
    • riddance
    • sacrifice
    • sale
    • scrapping
    • selling
    • trading
    • transfer
    • transference
    • vending
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