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# trash

«trash» in Mova's school dictionary: **rubbish, things you throw away (US, Canada)** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (trash — uncountable); verb (trash, trashes, trashed, trashing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Trash is rubbish, things you throw away (US, Canada). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trash/#m1)

2) Trash is also something of very poor quality: that film is trash (informal). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trash/#m2)

3) To trash something is to damage it badly or make a big mess of it (slang). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trash/#m3)

4) To trash someone or something is to criticise it harshly (informal). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trash/#m4)

5) (rude) Calling people «trash» is an insult. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trash/#m5)

6) In old country speech, to trash means to beat corn or grain to get the seeds out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trash/#m6)

### sense in the lessons

In North America children take out the trash and put litter in the trash can; in the UK, Ireland and Australia people say rubbish and bin. In informal speech, «trashed the room» means made a terrible mess. Phrases: take out the trash, trash can, in the trash.

### examples

- Please take out the trash after dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trash/#x1)
- Put the wrapper in the trash can. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trash/#x2)
- My little brother trashed my Lego castle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trash/#x3)
- The party guests trashed the house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trash/#x4)
- That TV show is total trash. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trash/#x5)
- The critics trashed the new film. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trash/#x6)
- Don't call people trash; it's unkind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trash/#x7)
- So off he went, and when he came to the farmer's, master and men were all a-trashing in the barn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trash/#x8)

### note

Uncountable: no plural (some trash). UK: rubbish, bin; US: trash, garbage, trash can. Calling a person «trash» is a rude insult. Verb forms: trashed, trashing.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «trash» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trash/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.