discarded
v. B2 Upper Intermediate US //dɪˈskɑɹdɪd// UK //dɪskˈɑːdɪd// dis·card·ed
v. thrown away or rejected because it is no longer useful or wanted. You use this to describe things that people have decided to get rid of.
v. thrown away or cast aside as useless or undesirable. Often describes physical waste or abandoned ideas.
The beach was covered in discarded plastic bottles.
He found an old, discarded bicycle in the alley and decided to fix it up.
The investigation relied on DNA evidence recovered from a discarded coffee cup found in a public trash bin near the crime scene.
Usage
Typically used as a participial adjective before a noun or after a linking verb.