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Verb: de-access
  1. Dispose of an item in a collection by selling it off
    "the museum de-accessed its collection of French impressionists to raise money"; "the publishing house de-accessed one of its popular magazines"

Derived forms: de-accessing, de-accessed, de-accesses

Type of: cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, discard, dispose, fling, put away, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out