garbage
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈɡɑːrbɪdʒ/
- US
:
basura
- A clatter and rustle arose as the garbage bag was pulled out of the waste can.
- garbage collection
- a garbage dump
- a garbage heap
You know, the garbage smells like barf and milk.
- You know, the garbage smells like barf and milk.
- The loser doesn't get their garbage picked up anymore.
- I mean, picking through garbage, This is the last thing we have.
- There is no litter or garbage anywhere.
- There is no alchemy that happens when chickens eat garbage in a factory and then produce eggs.
- Why is it because we put garbage in the food and why is that blah, blah blah.
- Thanks to loamy, I have way less garbage each week.
- This is leftover from my garbage hammer build.
Examples
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Thanks for taking out the garbage.
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The day had grown hot, and flies buzzed around the garbage in the streets.
Fiction book (1993) -
Hey, who left all this garbage on the steps of Congress?
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Uh, garbage goes out front tonight.
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There is no litter or garbage anywhere.
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Summertime, all you can smell is the garbage.
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I scrubbed and looked and hauled huge, heavy bags of garbage to the outside hall.
Fiction book (1991) -
Haul out the garbage.
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In the Mount Everest base camp area, many tons of garbage had accumulated by the mid-1980s.
Academic text (1993) -
Make sure to take the garbage out before the truck arrives.
Synonyms
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1.0
Material that people throw away after use, like food or packaging
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1.0
Things people throw away because they are unwanted
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1.1
Old or broken things that are no longer useful
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1.0
Things people throw away because they are not wanted
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4.1
Food waste and scraps that you throw away
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2.7
Uneaten or leftover food that people throw away from homes and shops
2
2.6
Things like old or broken items that are thrown away
Things people throw away because they are not useful
Antonyms
Compounds
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2.7
A device under a kitchen sink that grinds food waste so it goes down the drain
- Specialized
1
3.8
An automatic process that frees memory no longer used by a program
How Much
Surface Forms
Etymology
Garbage originally meant the unwanted insides and scraps from animals and cooking, basically 'offal'. That's why it came to mean general 'waste', especially spoiled food you throw away.