Usage Note
Desechar means to throw away or dismiss something as useless or unworthy, and is a regular -ar verb. Take care to distinguish its noun form desecho ('waste, discard') from deshecho (the past participle of deshacer, 'undone'), which is spelled with an internal h.
Examples
"Decidió desechar los documentos viejos."
Natural Translation
She decided to discard the old documents.

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