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NOUN:
    1. Worthless or discarded material or objects; refuse or rubbish.
    2. Something broken off or removed to be discarded, especially plant trimmings.
    3. The refuse of sugar cane after extraction of the juice.
  2. A place or receptacle where rubbish is discarded: threw the wrapper in the trash.
    1. Empty words or ideas.
    2. Worthless or offensive literary or artistic material.
    3. Disparaging, often abusive speech about a person or group.
  4. A person or group of people regarded as worthless or contemptible.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
trashed, trash·ing, trash·es
  1. Slang
    1. To throw away; discard: trashed the broken toaster.
    2. To wreck or destroy by or as if by vandalism; reduce to trash or ruins.
    3. To beat up; assault.
    4. To subject to scathing criticism or abuse; attack verbally: "The ... professor trashes conservative ... proposals as well as liberal nostrums" (Michael Marien).
    1. To remove twigs or branches from.
    2. To cut off the outer leaves of (growing sugar cane).
ETYMOLOGY:
Probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian dialectal trask


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