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garbages

garbages is the third-person singular simple present indicative of garbage.

Meaning of garbage

Verb

garbage (third-person singular simple present garbages, present participle garbaging, simple past and past participle garbaged)

  1. (Australia, Canada, US, obsolete, transitive) to eviscerate
    • I have bought at Boston a dozen Pidgeons ready pulled and garbidged for three pence.1674, John Josselyn, Two Voyages to New England, Made During the Years 1638-63 (quoted in William Butts Mershon, The Passenger Pigeon, 1907, The Outing Publishing Company)

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Noun

garbages pl (plural only)

  1. (India, plural, plural-only) Garbage; waste; refuse.
    • In market areas the commercial people provides necessary incentives to the municipal sweepers to keep the area clean of garbages. The problem is the "disposal" of the garbage.1980, Calcutta Municipal Gazette, volume 98, page 1787
    • It is a common observation that garbages are scattered around the slums. The respondents complained that the municipal sweepers seldom bother to collect the accumulated garbages from around the slums.1994, Najmir Nur Begum, Centre for Family Services, Low-income families of metropolitan Dhaka, page 98

Questions about garbages

What does garbages mean?
Garbages means garbage; waste; refuse.
What is garbages the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Garbages is the third-person singular simple present indicative of garbage.
What part of speech is garbages?
Garbages is a noun.

Words near garbages in the dictionary

  1. garbagepeople
  2. garbageperson
  3. garbagepersons
  4. garbager
  5. garbagers
  6. garbages
  7. garbagescape
  8. garbagescapes
  9. garbageware
  10. garbagewoman
  11. garbagewomen

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