to trash
- verb
- /træʃ/
- Offensive
- But in 2008, a popular political leader is being trashed for being popular.
That is why they want to trash anyone who leaves.
- That is why they want to trash anyone who leaves.
- Usually CEOs are really respectful and you know, they, they, they don't trash their competitors.
- Then maybe Keith McNally from Baltazar trashed Corden.
- So we're all allowed to trash this.
- It was just the whole week of just trashing them.
- It's like I couldn't trash Fashion Week and then want to look good in Fashion Week.
- I'm fine to take the United States brand and trash it.
- And so, you know, I don't want to trash it too much because they'll probably hate me for it.
- I see a lot of people who put up stuff on their website and then they trash the, the, the shop they worked for.
Examples
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Did you ask if it was okay to publicly trash his name like this?
Blog text (9) -
While we are at work, they are spending our money to trash the other party.
Blog text (5) -
That is why they want to trash anyone who leaves.
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That does not mean you can trash this unit!
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Especially after they trashed every one of the conservative candidates who ran this time around.
Blog text (6) -
I'm having second thoughts about trashing Tony in front of this many people.
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The two cousins got together every Thursday night to trash their ex-husbands and look for new recipes for their catering business.
Fiction book (1997) -
You're saying players on other teams trash you on TikTok or on podcasts.
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We're trying to find some psycho who's running around trashing people.
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Critics were quick to trash the film for its predictable plot.
Synonyms
To strongly criticize someone in public
To criticize someone strongly and unfairly in public
To say angry, insulting things about someone or something
To criticize someone or something harshly
To attack someone violently or criticize them very harshly
To speak badly about someone behind their backs
To criticize someone very strongly and angrily
To strongly criticize something in a review
Criticize someone in a very unkind way
Say insulting, bragging words to make someone angry or nervous
Scold someone very strongly for a mistake
To say bad things about someone or something and call it useless
To criticize someone or something very strongly in public
Say bad things about someone to harm their reputation
To scold someone very strongly for a mistake
To criticize someone angrily using harsh words
Attack someone with strong words in public
Strongly insult someone in front of others to embarrass them
Antonyms
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
To carry the garbage from your home to an outside bin for collection
Compounds
- Slur
An insulting word for poor white people, especially in the southern United States
- Specialized
A place on a computer where deleted files stay before they are removed for good
- Specialized
A folder that holds deleted files so you can restore or permanently remove them
How Harsh
Surface Forms
Etymology
To trash someone’s ideas (to criticize them very strongly) comes from the idea of calling something 'rubbish', so the verb means to treat the idea as worthless with harsh words.