betrash

present singular third person betrashes · participle present betrashing · participle past betrashed · past betrashed

1. transitiveTo 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

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   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

present singular third person betrashes · participle present betrashing · participle past betrashed · past betrashed

1. archaictransitiveTo betray.

   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

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   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

   They seize the new principle that has just been discovered, and carry it to a preposterous extreme, betrashing the phrases of scientists and thinkers.

   1901, Herbert Newton Casson, The crime of credulity