Trash
[træʃ]
Definition
(noun.) worthless people.
(verb.) dispose of (something useless or old); 'trash these old chairs'; 'junk an old car'; 'scrap your old computer'.
Checker: Sondra--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) That which is worthless or useless; rubbish; refuse.
(n.) Especially, loppings and leaves of trees, bruised sugar cane, or the like.
(n.) A worthless person.
(n.) A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game.
(v. t.) To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop, as to trash the rattoons of sugar cane.
(v. t.) To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush.
(v. t.) To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.
(v. i.) To follow with violence and trampling.
Editor: Vlad
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Dross, refuse, rubbish, trumpery, waste matter, worthless stuff.
Typed by Elvin
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Nonsense, refuse, vileness, superfluity, offal, worthlessness, dross, trifles,stuff, waste_matter, seaweed, sawdust, twaddle
ANT:Sense, soundness, usefulness, wisdom, treasure
Edited by Hilda
Definition
n. a clog fastened to a dog or other animal to restrain his movements.—v.t. to encumber check.
v.t. to crop: to strip off superfluous leaves.—n. refuse matter unfit for food rubbish good for nothing a worthless person.—n. Trash′ery trash rubbish.—adv. Trash′ily.—ns. Trash′iness the state or quality of being trashy; Trash′trie (Scot.) trash.—adj. Trash′y like trash; worthless.
v.t. to wear out to harass.
Edited by Dinah
Examples
- If the sea ever gives up its dead, as books say it will, it will keep its gold and silver to itself, and that trash among it. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- My dear Victor, do not waste your time upon this; it is sad trash. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- They are made pleasant to some, but I would more rather give my boys gunpowder to play with than this bad trash. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The whites could not toil without becoming degraded, and those who did were denominated poor white trash. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- His Grace, in the meek humility of his heart, has written to menace a prosecution if such trash be published. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I think you and I could do as well as that if we tried, returned Jo, amused at his admiration of the trash. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Wellington knows himself to be the subject, and therefore wisely prejudges the book trash one fortnight before it sees the light! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
Checker: Mollie