1
as in dumped
to end a usually intimate relationship with
ditched his wife for a woman 30 years his junior
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as in discarded
to get rid of as useless or unwanted
we ditched the old table at the town dump
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Recent Examples of ditched
As Colley noted, Harry is technically in line for the throne of Canada, but nonetheless ditched his Commonwealth allegiances for the Dodgers.
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Martha Ross, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025
Bo Nix ditched his uneven past, and the defense showed elasticity but refused to snap.
—Troy Renck, Denver Post, 27 Oct. 2025
The teenager ditched jewelry altogether, allowing the dress to do all the talking.
—Kelsey Stewart, Footwear News, 25 Oct. 2025
Porsche also ditched its plans to start building its own batteries, according to Bloomberg.
—Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 24 Oct. 2025
The Chargers ditched the all-gold uniforms that were universally panned by fans of good taste from near and far before, during and after Sunday’s game.
—Elliott Teaford, Oc Register, 24 Oct. 2025
Ofcom ditched the proposal, opting instead to change guidance.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2025
To match her dress and toasty makeup look, Bieber ditched nude nails in favor of a chocolate brown cat-eye effect.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 19 Oct. 2025
In the second quarter of this year, Spectrum reported a loss of 80,000 cable customers due to cord-cutting, a significant decline from the same period in 2024, when 408,000 homes ditched cable.
—Tribune News Service, Boston Herald, 18 Oct. 2025
Martha Ross, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025
Bo Nix ditched his uneven past, and the defense showed elasticity but refused to snap.
—Troy Renck, Denver Post, 27 Oct. 2025
The teenager ditched jewelry altogether, allowing the dress to do all the talking.
—Kelsey Stewart, Footwear News, 25 Oct. 2025
Porsche also ditched its plans to start building its own batteries, according to Bloomberg.
—Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 24 Oct. 2025
The Chargers ditched the all-gold uniforms that were universally panned by fans of good taste from near and far before, during and after Sunday’s game.
—Elliott Teaford, Oc Register, 24 Oct. 2025
Ofcom ditched the proposal, opting instead to change guidance.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2025
To match her dress and toasty makeup look, Bieber ditched nude nails in favor of a chocolate brown cat-eye effect.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 19 Oct. 2025
In the second quarter of this year, Spectrum reported a loss of 80,000 cable customers due to cord-cutting, a significant decline from the same period in 2024, when 408,000 homes ditched cable.
—Tribune News Service, Boston Herald, 18 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ditched
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Somewhere beyond the brush, two frightened dogs — caught on video being dumped and abandoned — were still waiting, as if the person who left them might return.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
7 Nov. 2025
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Drone footage showed catastrophic flooding that turned streets into rivers, submerged homes and overturned cars as Typhoon Kalmaegi, known locally as Tino, dumped more than a month’s worth of rain in only 24 hours in some areas.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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By 1974, though, many women had already discarded those notions as instruments of domination, psychic equivalents of the whalebone corset.—
James Marcus,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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After the executions, the bodies were discarded without ceremony.—
James Frater,
CNN Money,
31 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The mass of public officials and volunteers unloaded and passed about 1,200 turkeys into the food bank Thursday morning in a lively assembly line.—
Grace Zokovitch,
Boston Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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Carol Burnett has unloaded a massive haul of her most coveted awards, handing them off to her alma mater in conjunction with an endowment to support aspiring musical theater performers.—
Karu F Daniels,
Mercury News,
7 Nov. 2025
Verb
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That, too, had echoes of last season, when City, the reigning champions, lost their way completely after a promising start, winning just one match out of 13 in all competitions between late October and late December.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
8 Nov. 2025
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The major hubs of O'Hare, Atlanta, Denver and Dallas-Fort Worth rounded out the top five airports for cancellations, but those airports only lost around 3% of their flights.—
JOSH FUNK,
Arkansas Online,
8 Nov. 2025
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As a result, the team abandoned the practice for the next two and a half seasons.—
Elizabeth Hutchison Hicklin,
Southern Living,
8 Nov. 2025
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Wayne’s car was seen abandoned in Aurora’s Hoffman Heights neighborhood the next day, on June 15, 1986, but police did not link the car to Wayne until it was towed away two weeks later, an Aurora cold case investigator wrote in the affidavit.—
Katie Langford,
Denver Post,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Ditched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ditched. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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