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.
Recent Examples on the WebDavid Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2024
Almost as far as the eye could see were rubble and trash piles, with here and there a few buildings still standing.
—Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 14 July 2024
In his hands, the sort of drive that makes anyone plate and trash dozens of Wagyu steaks one after another begins to seem less like hustle, more like trauma displacement tinged with narcissism.
—Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 9 July 2024
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Noun
Their anger focuses on a plan to have triathletes and marathon swimmers compete in the Seine River, which has been fouled by sewage and trash for centuries.
—David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2024
Almost as far as the eye could see were rubble and trash piles, with here and there a few buildings still standing.
—Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
Verb
Watters, however, went all in on trashing the Secret Service.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 14 July 2024
In his hands, the sort of drive that makes anyone plate and trash dozens of Wagyu steaks one after another begins to seem less like hustle, more like trauma displacement tinged with narcissism.
—Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 9 July 2024
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“Trash.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trash. Accessed 24 Jul. 2024.
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