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desechar

to discard, to reject

verb deh-seh-CHAHR Rare

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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