trash
//tɹæʃ//
Forms
- Plural
- trashes
- present (v1)
- trash
- past (v2)
- trashed
- past participle (v3)
- trashed
- present participle
- trashing
- 3rd person singular
- trashes
Definitions
1.Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
- A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin.
2.A container into which things are discarded.
3.Something worthless or of poor quality.
- When your life is trash, you don't have much to lose.
4.A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.
1.To discard.
- Fatcat also fails to warn you that unformatting will trash any files copied to the unintentionally formatted disk.
2.To make into a mess.
- The burglars trashed the house.
3.To beat soundly in a game.
4.To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or disrespect.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4146
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle English trasch, trassh, probably a dialectal form of *trass (compare Orkney truss, English dialectal trous), from Old Norse tros (“rubbish, fallen leaves and twigs”), perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *þrakjaz (“dirt”). Pokorny instead derives it from Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”).