EIGHTY-SIXED Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

eighty-sixed

verb

variants or 86'd

past tense of eighty-six

as in discarded

to get rid of as useless or unwanted decided to eighty-six his birth name the minute he arrived in Hollywood

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In 2015, the last year fishing was allowed around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, the longline fishing fleet caught and discarded more than 7,000 sharks.

— NPR, NPR, 3 Aug. 2026
Russia’s answer to the Artemis program is to develop its own Russian Orbital Station, using modules from the International Space Station after it has been discarded, which would act as a gateway for lunar exploration.

— Fred Weir, Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 2026

Definition of discarded

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The Swannanoa River, across Highway 70 from Barker's street, rose to historic levels after Hurricane Helene dumped intense rainfall on the Appalachian region, after the area had already been hit by a storm just days before.

— Ginger Zee, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
The wind whips up sewage dried to a powder that's been dumped for years onto an arid riverbed near the fishing settlement of Rehri Goth, on the outskirts of the Pakistani port city of Karachi.

— Diaa Hadid, NPR, 2 Aug. 2026

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And Democrats denounced a 6-3 decision gutting a key section of the Voting Rights Act and another that ditched one of the few remaining checks on money in politics.

— Emily R. Condon, USA Today, 30 July 2026
Since my last review, Happn has overhauled its premium tiers, added AI tools, and ditched its desktop version, but the mobile app still shines.

— Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 28 July 2026

Definition of ditched

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Continue reading … DIGITAL'S NEWS QUIZ — Who unloaded on Sophie Cunningham fans?

— , FOXNews.com, 31 July 2026
The team that has looked mostly hapless at the plate the last two months unloaded eight singles, seven home runs, four doubles, two walks and, on Christmas In July Night at Progressive Field, a partridge in a pear tree.

— Zack Meisel, New York Times, 21 July 2026

Definition of unloaded

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Conductor Nathalie Stutzmann made a convincing case for an unwieldy composition whose autographed score was given by Wagner's daughter-in-law, Winifried, to Hitler and lost in the destruction that ended World War II.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026
The date stood out to Browning, who’d lost thousands in anticipated shillings when 584 steerage and 253 second-class passengers chose drowning in a Canadian river over registering at one of his boarding houses near the port of Liverpool.

— Claire Carusillo, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026

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