Garbage and Waste

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Garbage

Garbage noun - Discarded or useless material.

Usage example: the stray dogs were looking for leftover food in the family's garbage

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Waste is a synonym for garbage in rubbish topic. In some cases you can use "Waste" instead a noun "Garbage", when it comes to topics like trash, thing, refuse, litter. popular alternative

Nearby Word: garb

Waste

Waste noun - Discarded or useless material.

Usage example: gathered up the waste when he was finished sewing

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Garbage is a synonym for waste (North American) in trash topic. You can use "Garbage" instead a noun "Waste", if it concerns topics such as rubbish, thing, litter, slag. popular alternative

Nearby Words: wasted, wasting, wasteful, wastage, wastefulness

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good	good garbage	good waste
complete	complete garbage	complete waste
utter	utter garbage	utter waste
total	total garbage	total waste
Other adjectives: real, hazardous, worthless, terrible, useless, living, pointless, irrelevant, chemical, giant, toxic, magical, industrial, spilled.

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Sly Sludge was a corrupt exec who focused on waste disposal (that is, dumping absurd amounts of toxic waste and garbage wherever), and was sleazy and sneaky.

Source: Corrupt Corporate Executive
Like Grimer and Muk, Trubbish and Garbodor are said to have been accidentally made when industrial waste and garbage reacted to one another.

Source: Artificial Human
You're a garbage man.Opus: I'm a "waste-management artisan."Milo: You empty trash!

Source: Comic Strip / Bloom County

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