Thread:DeltaMagnatude/@comment-31294571-20170331011904/@comment-27029517-20170331013020

trash traSH/ noun noun: trash 1. NORTH AMERICAN discarded matter; refuse. synonyms:	garbage, refuse, waste, litter, junk, debris, detritus, rubbish "the subway entrance was blocked with trash" cultural items, ideas, or objects of poor quality. "if they read at all, they read trash" synonyms:	junk, dross, dreck, drivel, nonsense, trivia, pulp, pulp fiction, pap, garbage, rubbish; More informalschlock; vulgar slangcrap "if they read at all, they read trash" NORTH AMERICAN a person or people regarded as being of very low social standing. "she would have been considered trash" synonyms:	scum, vermin, dregs of society, lowest of the low; More informalscum of the earth, dirt, riffraff "that family is trash" verb verb: trash; 3rd person present: trashes; past tense: trashed; past participle: trashed; gerund or present participle: trashing 1. NORTH AMERICANinformal damage or wreck. "my apartment's been totally trashed" synonyms:	wreck, ruin, destroy, wreak havoc on, devastate; More vandalize, tear up, bust up, smash; informaltotal "the apartment had been totally trashed" US discard. "they trashed the tapes and sent her back into the studio" COMPUTING kill (a file or process) or wipe (a disk). "she almost trashed the email window" NORTH AMERICANinformal criticize severely. "trade associations trashed the legislation as deficient" synonyms:	criticize, lambaste, censure, attack, insult, abuse, malign, give a bad press to, condemn, flay, savage, pan, knock, take to pieces, take/pull apart, crucify, hammer, slam, bash, trash talk, roast, maul, rubbish, pummel; More informalbad-mouth, bitch about "his play was trashed by the critics" intoxicated with alcohol or drugs. "there was pot, there was booze, but nobody really got trashed" 2. strip (sugar cane) of its outer leaves to ripen it faster. Origin late Middle English: of unknown origin. The verb is first recorded (mid 18th century) in sense 2 of the verb; the other senses have arisen in the 20th century.