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
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: to subject to criticism or invective
especially
: to disparage strongly
a film trashed by the critics
: to trash something or someone
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.
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Dan Sullivan, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2026
Bristy, 27, is still missing, but is presumed dead after the remains of Zamil Limon, 27, another doctoral student at USF, were found in trash bags on a bridge in Tampa, according to court records.
—Julia Gomez, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2026
Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2026
La Querce remained as a school until the late 1990s after which squatters moved in and trashed the place.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
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Noun
Investigators collected trash from a bin in the apartment Abugharbieh shared with Limon.
—Dan Sullivan, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2026
Bristy, 27, is still missing, but is presumed dead after the remains of Zamil Limon, 27, another doctoral student at USF, were found in trash bags on a bridge in Tampa, according to court records.
—Julia Gomez, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2026
Verb
Well, that rich kid who trashed Dodgers fans had just about the worst imaginable day at Dodger Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
—Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2026
La Querce remained as a school until the late 1990s after which squatters moved in and trashed the place.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
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“Trash.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trash. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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