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betrash

betrash verb: to make or treat as trash.

Verb (1)

betrash (third-person singular simple present betrashes, present participle betrashing, simple past and past participle betrashed)

  1. (transitive) To make or treat as trash.
    • He was again no more than one hate-shot child-sized eye riding the effluvium of the burned-out lightning that betrashed the melted iron floor of the Narrow Corner.2000, R. A. Lafferty, Not to Mention Camels
    • Here, too, you will see the true idea of democracy, if I may mention this betrashed word among sensible folk. Democracy means that people shall cooperate, for the general good.2003, Herbert Newton Casson, Forbes B. C. Forbes Publishing Company, Tips on Leadership Or The Life Stories of Twenty Five Leaders

Verb (2)

betrash (third-person singular simple present betrashes, present participle betrashing, simple past and past participle betrashed)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To betray.
    • He said of the Bible: "It is the most betrashed book in the world. Coming to it through commentaries, is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows o'er which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs."1893, John Henry Barrows, Henry Ward Beecher
    • And in the water anon was seen His nose, his mouth, his eyen sheen, And he thereof was all abashed, His own shadow had him betrashed [...]1893, James Baldwin, The famous allegories

Forms of betrash

third-person singular presentbetrashes
present participlebetrashing
past participlebetrashed
pastbetrashed

Origin of betrash

From be- + trash.

From Middle English bitrasshen, bitraisshen, variant of betraisen. More at betraise.

Questions about betrash

What does betrash mean?
Betrash means to make or treat as trash.
What part of speech is betrash?
Betrash is a verb.
What is the past tense of betrash?
The past tense of betrash is betrashed.

Words near betrash in the dictionary

  1. betrail
  2. betrailed
  3. betrailing
  4. betrample
  5. betrap
  6. betrash
  7. betravail
  8. betravel
  9. Betrawati
  10. betray
  11. betray with a kiss

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