Break
Trash
Trash verb - To deliberately cause the damage or destruction of another's property.
Usage example: someone had broken into the gym and trashed the decorations for the dance
How words are described
| good | good break | good trash |
| mass | mass break | mass trash |
| complete | complete break | complete trash |
| total | total break | total trash |
| Other adjectives: small, actual, entire, real, little, major, minor. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Sometimes the trash just happens to be there, which is a lucky break if the person falling wanted to live.
Source: Trash Landing -
Trash Talk: Averted for the most part, but there were a few instances: Hisa subtly insulting Satomi's intelligence during the halftime break of their match, and all of Hiroe's matches so far.
Source: Manga / Saki -
Blazing Saddles spends its entire final act with the fourth wall broken, as the characters break out of their own movie to trash a sound stage and movie theater.
Source: Creator / Mel Brooks
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