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adjective

as in discarded

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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for junked
  1. discarded
  2. dumped
  3. neglected
  4. ditched
  5. unloaded
  6. scrapped
  7. lost
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 concern is that I would get emotionally involved with this girl too soon after being dumped.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Real people went outside and dumped buckets of ice on their heads, ostensibly to spread awareness of a neurodegenerative disease.
    — Matt Carlstrom, Vanity Fair, 14 Aug. 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
Verb
  • Disney then ditched the movie, offloading it to the scrappy Relativity Media — sound like a familiar trajectory?
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 12 Aug. 2026
  • For the ceremony, the bride and groom ditched their uniforms for formalwear.
    — Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of ditched
Verb
  • Two batters later, Seiya Suzuki unloaded a three-run home run to left field that was the difference.
    — Andy Martinez, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Once unloaded, that flour went on pallets and was stored in the warehouse and then loaded on ships to be sent overseas.
    — DP Opinion, Denver Post, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of unloaded
Verb
  • In June 2025, Gartner predicted more than 40% of agentic AI projects would be scrapped by the end of 2027.
    — Jurin AI Contributor, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • One particularly stubborn bottleneck automatically sent recruits who wore glasses for screening for rare disqualifying eye conditions, a requirement officials eventually scrapped.
    — Steven Beynon, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of scrapped
Verb
  • By this stage, Villa had already lost two physios and its head of medical services, Arnaldo Abrantes, to Arsenal.
    — Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Fifteen customers by Fall Creek near Pendleton also lost power.
    — John Tufts, IndyStar, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of lost

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