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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A number of items were voluntarily discarded due to contamination, including cling film, ovenable pan liners and baking cups.

— Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2026
At the site, the team is developing more efficient ways to recover scarce radioisotopes that would otherwise be discarded as waste.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of discarded

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Meanwhile, Pitt ditched his signature whimsical style for a classic black suit moment.

— Lara Walsh, InStyle, 24 Sep. 2026
The Boston Globe’s story about what happened when a lesbian bar in western Massachusetts ditched its mask mandate is worth the price of a subscription.

— Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of ditched

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Kahn’s heirs unloaded the place in 1939, a few years after his death, and it was chopped up over the years to serve as retirement housing for city workers, a military training compound, and a boarding school, per Forbes.

— Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 25 Sep. 2026
No one exhaled until the cargo was unloaded, unswaddled, and confirmed to be in one piece.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of unloaded

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Those challenges become tomorrow’s workforce shortages, rising health care costs, and lost economic potential.

— Stanley McChrystal, STAT, 29 Sep. 2026
However, the work, done with Tanzanian government partners, helps track threatened species and monitor human activity that endangers the region’s wildlife, making the few cameras lost in the process all the more worth it.

— Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2026

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