Discard vs Forgo - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between discard and forgo

is that discard is anything discarded while forgo is joint.

is to throw away, to reject.

turning, revolving, rotating, whirling, circulating.

(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

* forego

To let pass, to leave alone

To do without, to abandon

The only way to avoid shame is to forgo acting shamefully.

To refrain from, to abstain from, to pass up, to withgo.

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