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discarded

[ dih-skahr-did ]

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adjective

having been disposed of, cast out, or put aside:
The fire is believed to have been started by a discarded match or cigarette.
The sprocket wheel and chain were scavenged from a discarded bicycle.

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When the lights come back up, Gaga is now the woman in white, lying in the sand, half-dead among piles of discarded human remains.

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Earlier that same year, a chunk of rocket landed on a North Carolina roof and a discarded space station battery pelted property in Florida.

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An overnight blaze that broke out at a village pub was caused by a discarded cigarette.

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The volunteers cleared the playground only to find freshly discarded bags of waste the next day.

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A ranch used as a training camp by a Mexican drug cartel was littered with burned bodies and discarded possessions.

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