trashes
Ruins beyond repair
Trashes is the verb trash in its third-person singular form, meaning to destroy, damage, or throw away.
Someone who trashes a hotel room wrecks it; someone who trashes old files discards them.
In informal use, to trash can also mean to criticize harshly: The reviewer completely trashes the new album.
The noun trash rarely appears as trashes since trash is typically uncountable.
Commercial refuse container
- refuseReject or garbage
- debrisScattered broken fragments
- scrapsSmall remaining pieces
- leftoversUneaten food kept afterward
waste · junk · clutter · detritus · dregs · dross · chaff · remnants
Destroys completely
- ruinsDecayed structural remains
- demolishesTears down completely
- devastatesDestroys thoroughly and completely
- ravagesDestructive effects over time
vandalizes · ransacks · smashes · totals · mangles · obliterates · annihilates · decimates
Strikes forcefully; rowdy gatherings
- slamsForceful closings or criticisms
- roastsOven-cooks or mocks
- ripsTears with force
- attacksAggressive hostile actions
disparages · denigrates · denounces · ridicules · mocks · badmouths · maligns · savages
Spread irregularly about
- scatterDistribute in random directions
- messDisorderly, troublesome condition
- blightPlant disease causing decay
- eyesoreOffensively unattractive thing
unsightly · litterbug · dumping · careless · toss · dropping · polluting · despoiling
Compresses with force
- demolishesTears down completely
- annihilatesDestroys utterly and completely
- dominatesExerts supreme control
- routsDecisive, overwhelming defeats
clobbers · thrashes · steamrolls · blows out · overwhelms · decimates · humiliates · shellacs
Waste burial ground
- incinerationBurning waste to ash
- dumpingDisposing carelessly or abruptly
- sanitationCleanliness for public health
- compactorMachine that compresses materials
shredding · hauling · collection · curbside · pickup · bagging · binning · tossing
dumpster
Commercial refuse container
leftovers · waste · junk · clutter · detritus · dregs · dross · chaff · remnants · husks
wrecks
Destroys completely
- ruinsDecayed structural remains
- demolishesTears down completely
- devastatesDestroys thoroughly and completely
ravages · vandalizes · ransacks · smashes · totals · mangles · obliterates · annihilates · decimates · razes
bashes
Strikes forcefully; rowdy gatherings
attacks · disparages · denigrates · denounces · ridicules · mocks · badmouths · maligns · savages · pans
strewn
Spread irregularly about
- scatterDistribute in random directions
- messDisorderly, troublesome condition
- blightPlant disease causing decay
eyesore · unsightly · litterbug · dumping · careless · toss · dropping · polluting · despoiling · defacing
crushes
Compresses with force
- demolishesTears down completely
- annihilatesDestroys utterly and completely
- dominatesExerts supreme control
routs · clobbers · thrashes · steamrolls · blows out · overwhelms · decimates · humiliates · shellacs · buries
landfill
Waste burial ground
- incinerationBurning waste to ash
- dumpingDisposing carelessly or abruptly
- sanitationCleanliness for public health
compactor · shredding · hauling · collection · curbside · pickup · bagging · binning · tossing · chucking
- verbsjump, be, speak, wait, do
- criticismscriticizes, disparages, condemns, denounces, censures
- trash canContainer for refuse
- trash bagDisposable waste receptacle liner
- take out the trashRemove household waste
- trash talkCompetitive verbal intimidation
- trash pandasSlang for raccoons
- trash truckVehicle for collecting refuse
trash, trashy, trashed, trashing, trashiness, trasher, trashers