Discard vs Decompose - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between discard and decompose

is that discard is to throw away, to reject while decompose is .

is anything discarded.

(en verb)

to throw away, to reject.

* I. Taylor

A man discards the follies of boyhood.

(card games) To make a discard; to throw out a card.

To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge.

* Jonathan Swift

They blame the favourites, and think it nothing extraordinary that the queen should resolve to discard them.

* cast away * dismiss * dispose * eliminate * get rid of * throw away * See also

(en noun)

Anything discarded.

A discarded playing card in a card game.

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* English heteronyms

(decompos)

to separate or break down something into its components; to disintegrate or fragment

to rot, decay or putrefy