How to say "discard" in Japanese

• 捨てるすてるJLPT N4approx.Common
  ichidan verb, transitive verbThe general word for throwing something away—trash, unwanted items, anything you get rid of. It also covers figurative discarding, which makes it the broadest of the three and the usual default.
  私はあなたの皮肉ひにくな言葉ことばは聞き捨ききずてにはできません。↗

  I resent your cynical remarks.
• 切り捨てるきりすてるCommon
  ichidan verb, transitive verbNot the word for physically throwing things away. It means discarding in the sense of cutting something—or someone—off: abandoning a plan, dismissing an idea, leaving a person behind, often unsentimentally.
  もう少すこしやさしく意見いけんしてあげたらどうなの。一刀両断いっとうりょうだんのもと切り捨きりすてられた彼かれの立場たちばも考かんがえてよ。↗

  Why don't you try expressing your opinion a little more gently? Think about how he feels getting told flatly that he's being cut loose.
• 脱ぎ捨てるぬぎすてるCommon
  ichidan verb, transitive verbNarrower than the others: discard here means casting something off the way you take off a garment—old ideas, habits, and the like. Not for everyday trash or for abandoning people.

Choose 「捨てる」 for the general sense of throwing something away; 「切り捨てる」 for discarding in the sense of cutting off or abandoning—sometimes a person; 「脱ぎ捨てる」 for casting off old habits or ideas.

Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only

• 捨てるすてるto throw away
• うっちゃるto discard
• 捨て札すてふだdiscard
• 捨て去るすてさるto abandon
• 切り捨てるきりすてるto abandon
• 脱ぎ捨てるぬぎすてるto cast off (old ideas, habits, etc.)
• 切って捨てるきってすてるto abandon