trash

CEFRA2

/tɹæʃ/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    Waste material that people throw away.

  2. 02

    verb

    To damage or criticize something badly.

Examples

  • There is a big movement today to recycle trash.

  • There's no use for plastic supermarket bags aside from putting trash in them.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
4
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A container into which things are discarded.

  2. Something worthless or of poor quality.

  3. Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.

More examples

In context

  • They fine you in Singapore if you throw trash in the streets.

  • When your life is trash, you don't have much to lose.

  • I am Harry Potter trash.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English trasch, trassh, probably a dialectal form of *trass (compare Orkney truss, English dialectal trous), from Old Norse tros (“rubbish, fallen leaves and twigs”), perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *þrakjaz (“dirt”). Pokorny instead derives it from Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”). Compare Norwegian trask (“lumber, trash, baggage”), Swedish trasa (“rag, cloth, worthless fellow”), Swedish trås (“dry fallen twigs, wood-waste”). Compare also Old English þreax (“rottenness, rubbish”).