eighty-sixed

variants or 86'd
past tense of eighty-six

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for eighty-sixed
Verb
  • Furniture, toys and equipment need to be moved or discarded, leaving the business closed through October.
    Bridget Fogarty, jsonline.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Dairy and lunch meat had to be discarded due to this.
    Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Since May 2020, at least 20 homes have been lost.
    Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Data from the commission show from 2020 to 2023, consumers lost more than $110 million in scams involving Bitcoin ATMs.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Popular Aussie band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard ditched Spotify in July to protest Ek’s investments in the military defense company Helsing, as did Xiu Xiu and Deerhoof.
    Roy Trakin, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The Dodgers have ditched that for a new cutter.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • While current power brokers haven’t scrapped movies over their content, yet, Hollywood has a recent history of companies obeying in advance by shelving projects until the tensions cool.
    Chris Yogerst, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2025
  • There were additional plans to film a retrospective episode, but that was also scrapped.
    Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2025
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“Eighty-sixed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eighty-sixed. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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