Trash vs Destroy - What's the difference?
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(chiefly, US) Useless things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
* Landor
A container into which things are discarded.
Something worthless or of poor quality.
(slang, derogatory) People of low social status or class.
(computing) Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.
A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game.
(US) To discard.
* 1989 , InfoWorld (18 December 1989, page 66)
(US) To make into a mess.
(US) To beat soundly in a game.
(US) To disrespect someone or something
To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush.
To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.
To cause destruction.
To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
To put down or euthanize.
(colloquial) To defeat soundly.
(computing) To remove data.
As verbs the difference between trash and destroy
is that trash is (us) to discard while destroy isto damage beyond use or repair
. As a noun trash
is (chiefly|us) useless things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.trash
English
Noun
(-)- A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin.
- (Markham)
Synonyms
* garbage (1-3), junk (1,3), refuse (1), rubbish, waste * (container) trash can * See alsoDerived terms
* trailer trash * trash bag * trash can * trashed * trashery * trash fish * trashman * trashmover * trashy * white trashVerb
(es)- Fatcat also fails to warn you that unformatting will trash any files copied to the unintentionally formatted disk.
- The burglars trashed the house.
- to trash the rattoons of sugar cane
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* trash outSee also
recycle binAnagrams
* *destroy
English
Verb
To damage beyond use or repair.
- The earthquake destroyed several apartment complexes.
- ''Hooligans destroy unprovoked
- ''Smoking destroys the natural subtlety of the palate
- Destroying a rabid dog is required by law.
- The memory leak happened because we forgot to destroy the temporary lists.