betrash

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To 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.
   • 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.
2. 2

   To betray.

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

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