1
: something worth little or nothing: such as
b(1)
: inferior or worthless writing or artistic matter (such as a television show)
especially
: such matter intended purely for sensational entertainment
(2)
(3)
: empty talk : nonsense
2
: a worthless person
also
: such persons as a group : riffraff
3
: something in a crumbled or broken condition or mass
especially
: debris from pruning or processing plant material
trashed; trashing; trashes
1
: throw away sense 1
standards of reality and truth were trashed—
Edwin Diamond
Edwin Diamond5
: to subject to criticism or invective
especially
: to disparage strongly
a film trashed by the critics
: to trash something or someone
Synonyms
Examples of trash in a Sentence
Noun
Take out the trash, please.
I put the dirty diaper in the trash.
I can't believe you're reading that trash.
She thinks that they're all trash.
Verb
a computer program that trashes useless files
The vacuum cleaner couldn't be fixed, so I trashed it.
The apartment had been trashed.
He says that the government's policies are trashing the environment.
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Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
The next holiday that will affect trash pickup is Thanksgiving.
—John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Nov. 2024
Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
When the needles on the device dissolve, simply pop it off and trash it.
—Jenn Barthole, Glamour, 31 Oct. 2024
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Noun
One resident showed a reporter a photo of a trash fire taken earlier in the week in the building.
—Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
The next holiday that will affect trash pickup is Thanksgiving.
—John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Nov. 2024
Verb
Analysis: Why trash in space is a major problem with no clear fix
Sara Novak is a science journalist based in South Carolina.
—Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
When the needles on the device dissolve, simply pop it off and trash it.
—Jenn Barthole, Glamour, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Trash.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trash. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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