{
    "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."
}