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捨てる — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • abandon verb To leave someone or something behind for good, especially when you have a duty to stay.
  • discard verb To throw away or get rid of something no longer wanted.
  • expatriate adj Living outside of one's own country.
  • jilt noun A woman who readily casts aside her lover.

Senses

捨てる is used for these senses in English:

  • abandon (transitive, obsolete) To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject. [Attested from the mid 16th century until the mid 17th century.]
  • discard (transitive) To throw away, to reject.
  • expatriate (intransitive) To withdraw from one’s native country.
  • jilt (transitive) To cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love.
  • throw away (transitive) To discard (trash, garbage, or the like), to toss out, to put in the trash.
  • throw out (idiomatic) To discard; to dispense with something; to throw away.

abandon — full definition

  1. verb To leave someone or something behind for good, especially when you have a duty to stay.
  2. verb To give up an activity, plan, or belief completely.
  3. noun Total freedom from restraint or inhibition, especially in the phrase "with abandon".

discard — full definition

  1. verb To throw away or get rid of something no longer wanted.
  2. verb (card games) To throw out a card from one's hand.
  3. noun Something, or a playing card, that has been thrown away or rejected.

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