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Past tense of trash

regular verb

The past tense of trash is trashed. The past participle is also trashed.

Forms of trash

Base form (V1)trash /tɹæʃ/
Past tense (V2)trashed /tɹæʃt/
Past participle (V3)trashed /tɹæʃt/
Present participletrashing
Third person singulartrashes

Trashed in a sentence

  • The burglars trashed the house.
  • The rock band trashed out the hotel room.From the entry trash out
  • You can use this shortcut to undelete a deleted (but not trashed) file or to unmove something.2005, Larry Ullman, Marc Liyanage, Mac OS X Tiger Timesaving Techniques For Dummies. From the entry unmove
  • Now over 20 terabytes in size, its world is a nightmare frontier of deadfalls, lava flows, trashed bases, and hate speech.2024, Mojang, chapter 3, in The World of Minecraft, page 50. From the entry anarchy server
  • I thought, let's go out and get trashed.1996, “Thoughts”, performed by Spock's Beard. From the entry trashed

Meaning of trash

  1. noun Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
  2. noun A container into which things are discarded.
  3. noun Something worthless or of poor quality.

Full definition of trash

Questions about the past tense of trash

What is the past tense of trash?
The past tense of trash is trashed.
What is the past participle of trash?
The past participle of trash is trashed.
Is trash a regular or irregular verb?
Trash is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: trash (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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