JUNKED Synonyms: 91 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in discarded

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junked

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verb

past tense of junk

as in dumped

to get rid of as useless or unwanted we'll have to junk this old car

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Recent Examples of junked

Adjective

And indeed the grounds are littered with junked classics from the 1950s and '60s. — Priyanka Mattoo, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 July 2026 Plots littered with junked trunks, empty skid tanks, the rib cages of hoop houses picked clean. — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026 The lot was filled with junked cars, equipment and garbage, the report shows. — Kellie Love, Hartford Courant, 9 Mar. 2026

Verb

Kansas Citians used sandbags, broken concrete, mounds of dirt and rocks from local quarries, and junked cars to shore up the levees protecting Municipal Airport and North Kansas City. — Kansas City Public Library Staff, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2026 Note that this result doesn’t necessarily mean that the fraud detection should be junked. — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026 So Squeri junked the scoreboard. — Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 11 May 2026 Sets would be built and then junked only to be rebuilt again at considerable cost due to an overall lack of familiarity with standard Hollywood filmmaking procedures. — Chris Lee, Vulture, 27 Apr. 2026

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Adjective

In another development, researchers in the US developed a new method that could turn discarded data center hardware into a reliable, eco-friendly source of rare earths and valuable metals.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 16 Aug. 2025

Definition of discarded

Verb

The first atmospheric river to hit the Southwest this season dumped up to five times the average rain for November in parts of the region, triggering destructive flooding for the second consecutive month.

— Suheir Hashimeh, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2026
Farmers dumped manure on the streets of Turin on Friday as mass demonstrations unfurled across more than 50 cities in Italy.

— Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of dumped

Adjective

Investors and analysts are increasingly looking to other parts of the market, both to find neglected sources of value and to start assuming a defensive posture against a possible downturn.

— Tobias Burns, CNBC, 16 July 2026
Changing their environment is more reliable and more neglected.

— Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026

Definition of neglected

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People who would normally carry around an iPod and their mobile phone ditched their iPods for a mobile device that could combine both.

— Eric Griffith, PC Magazine, 23 Oct. 2026
With no end to the crisis in sight, investors again ditched French bonds, pushing up their yields.

— Jim Edwards, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of ditched

Verb

After shootings like these, calls for gun owners to keep their guns locked, unloaded and separate from ammunition are common.

— Nina Vinik, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2026
Video captured the Toyota leaving before the second robbery and returning afterward, when a man resembling Sartin unloaded a bicycle, according to the affidavit.

— Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of unloaded

Verb

Savings Healey scrapped plans to lower the cash ISA allowance to £12,000.

— Marc Shoffman, TheWeek, 30 Oct. 2026
Those plans were scrapped as the president initially opted to hold a series of telerallies for Republican candidates in close races across the country.

— Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of scrapped

Verb

Republicans not only lost the House, but watched as their hope of keeping a Senate majority slipped away, too — a blue tsunami that was quickly interpreted as a rebuke of the president and his agenda.

— David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 4 Nov. 2026
The spot sparked national bipartisan backlash on grounds that Acton's mother had lost custody of her children decades ago after her husband, their stepfather, was indicted for raping Acton as a child.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 4 Nov. 2026

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