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—
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: 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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Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
City leaders are also increasing parking meter rates, extending trash collection fees and making other moves to raise revenues.
—Mariana Trujillo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025
Zoe Sottile, CNN, 21 Jan. 2025
For Someone with an Arts & Crafts Corner Some people can be quite clumsy, and the experience of having to trash something valuable due to mishandling is truly heartbreaking.
—Tiana Randall, Architectural Digest, 21 Jan. 2025
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Noun
Whatever trash isn’t recycled is trucked away, dumped into landfills and buried.
—Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
City leaders are also increasing parking meter rates, extending trash collection fees and making other moves to raise revenues.
—Mariana Trujillo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025
Verb
On the evening of January 14, a woman was arrested after allegedly setting multiple piles of rubbish and trash on fire, Jim McDonnell, chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, said at a news conference last week.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN, 21 Jan. 2025
For Someone with an Arts & Crafts Corner Some people can be quite clumsy, and the experience of having to trash something valuable due to mishandling is truly heartbreaking.
—Tiana Randall, Architectural Digest, 21 Jan. 2025
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“Trash.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trash. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.
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