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trash-bin en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To trash, throw out, discard; (computing) to delete (a file, etc).
    • Your request to know explicit details about my sex life is noted, ridiculed, and trashbinned. 2002 May 8, Clay Colwell, “Yardhelp:”, in austin.general (Usenet):
    • I can think of a few colleagues who flagellate themselves into trash-binning fully adequate text. If these folk had the same neurosis in their cooking, they would starve to death! 2005, Mario Rinvolucri, “Unleashing Writing Creativity in Students”, in English Teaching Forum, volume 43, number 3, page 42:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
trash-binned Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
trash-binned Tense=Past lexicographic
trash-bins Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
trash-binning Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic