The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SCRAP , but the solution may also be TOSS which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
Discard crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SCRAP | 45 % | 5 |
| TOSS | 12 % | 4 |
| SHED | 11 % | 4 |
| REJECT | 5 % | 6 |
| CASTASIDE | 4 % | 9 |
| CASTOFF | 4 % | 7 |
| THROWOUT | 2 % | 8 |
| JETTISON | 2 % | 8 |
| DUMP | 2 % | 4 |
| SETASIDE | 2 % | 8 |
| CHUCKOUT | 1 % | 8 |
| TOSSOUT | 1 % | 7 |
| WASTE | 1 % | 5 |
| DITCH | 1 % | 5 |
| SLOUGH | 1 % | 6 |
| DOFF | 1 % | 4 |
| SLUFF | 1 % | 5 |
| DEEP6 | 1 % | 5 |
Why may TOSS be the right solution?
The word "discard" is a synonym for "to toss", meaning to throw away or get rid of something.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Discard
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- dispose
- toss
- fling
- throw away
- cast aside
- cast away
- cast out
- chuck out
- put away
- throw out
- throwing away
- toss away
Crossword Answer definitions
SCRAP noun- A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
- (usually in the plural) Leftover food.
- The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
- Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
- (in the plural) A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.
- A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Norte gang.
- A snare for catching birds.
- To discard.
- (of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
- To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
- To dispose of at a scrapyard.
- To make into scrap.
- A fight, tussle, skirmish.
- To fight
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result SCRAP
More clues leading to the result TOSS
- Flip of a coin
- Chuck
- Mix, in a way
- Ref's pregame duty
- Sleep restlessly
- Turn's partner
- Call heads or tails
- Have a restless night
- Not sleep peacefully
- Fling
More clues leading to the result SHED
- Get hair all over the rug
- Lose hair
- Molt
- Place for the lawn mower
- Repel·
- Shelter
- Cast off
- Get rid of
- Hut
- Repel
More clues leading to the result REJECT
- Send back
- One unsuitable for print, e.g.
- Dismiss
- Discard
- Throw out
- Throw back
- Turn down
- Spurn
- Unwanted item
- Turn down, as a manuscript
More clues leading to the result CASTASIDE
More clues leading to the result CASTOFF
- Discard
- Throw away
- Discarded
- Discarded one.
- Abandoned.
- Loosed from a mooring.
- Knitting term.
- Reject
- Hand-me-down
- Thrown away
More clues leading to the result THROWOUT
More clues leading to the result JETTISON
More clues leading to the result DUMP
- Jettison
- With 77-Across's third word, what this recipe makes
- Get rid of
- Leave in the lurch
- Deep-six
- Hit with a Dear John letter
- Oust without ceremony
- Dilapidated place
- Junkyard
- Landfill
More clues leading to the result SETASIDE
- Table
- Put on ice
- Reserved
- Reserve
- Put in reserve
- Saved
- Save for later
- Place in reserve
- Hold for later
- Keep for later
More clues leading to the result CHUCKOUT
More clues leading to the result TOSSOUT
- Reject
- Chuck
- Eject
- Get rid of
- Throw away
- Fling away.
- Discard.
- Offer for consideration ... or remove from consideration
More clues leading to the result WASTE
- Consume carelessly
- Refuse
- Squander
- Basket type
- Trash
- Fritter away
- Miasma
- Chucked stuff
- Junk
- Word with human and industrial
More clues leading to the result DITCH
- Moat
- Leave behind, as a "friend"
- Leave behind, as one's "friends" might
- Get rid of
- Trench
- Steeplechase obstacle
- Deep-six
- Throw out
- Small waterway
- Dump
More clues leading to the result SLOUGH
- Cast (off)
- Shed, with "off"
- Discard, with "off"
- Discard.
- Place of deep mud.
- Swamp or bog.
- Jettison
- Swamp
- Stagnant swamp
- Shed (with "off")
More clues leading to the result DOFF
- Remove
- Take off
- Take off (one's hat)
- Tip
- Tip your hat
- Remove, as a cap
- Tip politely
- Remove, as one's hat
- Tip, as a hat
- Remove, as a hat