trash

B1 Topic:General Vocabulary

US /tɹæʃ/ See IPA manual

Freq #2567

Meanings

1

noun
Things that are thrown away because they are no longer wanted; rubbish.

Please take the trash out to the bin.
2

verb
To throw something away because it is useless or old.

I decided to trash the old broken chairs.
3

verb
To criticize someone or something very harshly.

The critics trashed the movie in their reviews.
4

noun
Something of very poor quality or no value.

Most of the books in that box were just trash.

Verb forms

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Synonyms

1 noun · things that are thrown away... refuse scrap garbage

2 verb · to throw something away... scrap

3 verb · to criticize someone or... pan tear apart

More crap cultch debrisdreckdrekgash junk litter pelfroughagerubbish

Word family

Forms trashes

Derived forms ameritrashbetrashcybertrashgendertrashhamiltrashinfotrashkartrashianmicrotrashtrash-talktrash-talkertrash-talkingtrashbox

Related forms inutility jerk

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Phrases (1)

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trash pile
a heap of discarded waste

Noun + noun

Proverbs (2)

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Etymology

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”).

trasch Middle English *þrakjaz Proto-Germanic *dóru Proto-Indo-European

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# trash

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B1
**Part of speech:** noun, verb
**IPA (US):** /tɹæʃ/
**Frequency rank:** 2567

## Meanings
1. Things that are thrown away because they are no longer wanted; rubbish.
2. To throw something away because it is useless or old.
3. To criticize someone or something very harshly.
4. Something of very poor quality or no value.

## Examples
- Please take the trash out to the bin.
- I decided to trash the old broken chairs.
- The critics trashed the movie in their reviews.
- Most of the books in that box were just trash.

## Synonyms
- crap
- cultch
- debris
- dreck
- drek
- garbage
- gash
- junk
- litter
- pelf
- roughage
- rubbish

## Derived Forms
- ameritrash
- betrash
- cybertrash
- gendertrash
- hamiltrash
- infotrash
- kartrashian
- microtrash
- trash-talk
- trash-talker
- trash-talking
- trashbox

## Related Forms
- inutility
- jerk

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: trasch
- Root: *þrakjaz
- Root: *dóru

## Etymology
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”).

## AI Etymology
Trash is 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”). Derived formations include ameritrash, betrash, cybertrash, gendertrash, hamiltrash, infotrash, kartrashian, microtrash.

## Topics
- General Vocabulary

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