Trash Definition
trăsh
trashed, trashes, trashing
noun
trashes
Broken, discarded, or worthless things; rubbish; refuse.
Webster's New World
A place or receptacle where rubbish is discarded.
Threw the wrapper in the trash.
American Heritage
Any worthless, unnecessary, or offensive matter.
Literary trash.
Webster's New World
Something considered worthless or of inferior quality, such as a piece of writing.
American Heritage
Parts that have been broken off, stripped off, etc., esp. leaves, twigs, husks, and other plant trimmings.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
- tramps
- wastrels
- canaille (both French)
- sans-culottes
- greek
- hoi polloi
- white-trash
- good-for-nothings
- varmints
- guttersnipes
- sharecroppers
- poor whites
- the poor
- outlaws
- thieves
Antonyms:
- riches
- goods
- money
- the upper class
- aristocracy
- the wealthy
- information
- sense
- valuables
- possessions
- assets
verb
trashed, trashes, trashing
To throw away; discard.
Trashed the broken toaster.
American Heritage
To destroy (property) as by vandalism or arson.
Webster's New World
To trim (trees or plants) of trash.
Webster's New World
To criticize (a person, policy, performance, etc.) sharply or maliciously.
Webster's New World
To criticize severely or attack verbally.
The film was trashed by reviewers.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
adjective
Regarded as being worthless, offensive, lacking in substance, etc.
An afternoon of trash TV.
Webster's New World
idiom
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Trash
Origin of Trash
Probably a dialectal form of (compare Orkney truss, English dialectal trous), from Old Norse tros (“rubbish, fallen leaves and twigs"). Compare Norwegian trask (“lumber, trash, baggage"), Swedish trasa (“rag, cloth, worthless fellow"), Swedish trÃ¥s (“dry fallen twigs, wood-waste"). Compare also Old English þreahs, þreax (“rottenness, rubbish").
From Wiktionary
Probably of Scandinavian origin Norwegian dialectal trask
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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