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trashify en · VERB

Etymology

From trash + -ify.

Meanings

  1. (informal, transitive) To turn (something) into trash; to lower the quality of.
    • Trashify all reports with irrelevant data, maps, charts, and computer readouts. 1999, James H. Boren, How to be a Sincere Phoney: A Handbook for Politicians and Bureaucrats, Tahlequah, OK; Delaplane, VA: Birdcage Publications; EPM Custom Books, →ISBN, page 171:
    • Today many people are cheapening themselves, devaluating their lives, trashifying their characters. They have strayed from and lost the high regard for themselves. 1964 March 14, J. Donald Backenstose, “This Week's Meditation…: On Having a High Regard for Yourself”, in Lebanon Daily News, volume 92, number 161, Lebanon, Pa., page 4:
    • Same with font-sizes, have to bump it up a point or 2 because Netscape 4 displays it smaller than the rest of the browsers, so to get it to look "acceptable" in that 13%, you have to trashify the remaining 87% by placing bloated, non-compliant code which makes performance much worse. 2000 December 31, Jim Hendrickson, “What the F#$@ is wrong with Netscape?”, in alt.html (Usenet):

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
trashified Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
trashified Tense=Past lexicographic
trashifying Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
trashifies Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Deriveds

trashification