garbage
garbage is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Offal, as the bowels of an animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome. Grainger.
- 2.To strip of the bowels; to clean. "Pilchards . . . are garbaged." Holland.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abandon
- abandonment
- apart
- aside
- away
- behind
- cast
- cede
- cession
- course
- culls
- deed
- derelict
- dereliction
- disburden
- discard
- dismiss
- dispensation
- dispose
- dispossess
- disuse
- divest
- down
- drop
- eject
- expropriate
- expropriation
- fling
- forego
- foundling
- get
- give
- hold
- jetsam
- jettison
- lay
- left
- let
- make
- maroon
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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