Discard vs Abolish - What's the difference?
discard | abolish |
to throw away, to reject.
* I. Taylor
(card games) To make a discard; to throw out a card.
To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge.
* Jonathan Swift
To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice.
* 2002', William Schabas, ''The '''abolition of the death penalty in international law (Cambridge University Press):
(archaic) To put an end to or destroy, as a physical object; to wipe out.
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As verbs the difference between discard and abolish
is that discard is to throw away, to reject while abolish is to end a law, system, institution, custom or practice .As a noun discard
is anything discarded.discard
English
Verb
(en verb)- A man discards the follies of boyhood.
- They blame the favourites, and think it nothing extraordinary that the queen should resolve to discard them.
Synonyms
* cast away * dismiss * dispose * eliminate * get rid of * throw away * See alsoExternal links
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* English heteronymsabolish
English
Verb
(es)- Slavery was abolished in the nineteenth century.
- And with thy blood abolish so reproachful blot.
- His quick instinctive hand Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him.