Betrash
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To make or treat as trash. transitive
"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."
- 2 To betray. archaic, transitive
"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.""
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From be- + trash.
From Middle English bitrasshen, bitraisshen, variant of betraisen. More at betraise.
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