trash – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to trash
Participle: trashed
Gerund: trashing

Cognates

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Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	trash
we	Let's trash
you	trash

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

throw away

discard, ditch, dump, junk, scrap, throw away, throw out, toss, wreck

to throw away as useless

86, bin, can, cast away, chuck, chuck away, chuck out, discard, dispose of, ditch, dump, get rid of, jettison, junk, scrap, shift, throw away, throw out, toss

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. "anything of little use or value," 1518, perhaps from a Scand. source (cf. O.N. tros "rubbish, fallen leaves and twigs," Norw. dial. trask "lumber, trash, baggage," Swed. trasa "rags, tatters"), of unknown origin. Applied to ill-bred persons or groups from 1604 ("Othello"). Applied to domestic refuse or garbage in 1906 (Amer.Eng.). The verb meaning "to discard as worthless" is 1895, from the noun; in the sense of "destroy, vandalize" it is attested from 1970; extended to "criticize severely" in 1975. White trash is from 1831, originally Southern U.S. black slang. Trashy "worthless" first attested 1620.
2. 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”).
3. 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”). See: Swedish 'trasa', Swedish 'trås'.

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