betrash
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
betrash (third-person singular simple present betrashes, present participle betrashing, simple past and past participle betrashed)
- (transitive) To make or treat as trash.
- 2000, R. A. Lafferty, Not to Mention Camels:
- 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.
- 2003, Herbert Newton Casson, Forbes B. C. Forbes Publishing Company, Tips on Leadership Or The Life Stories of Twenty Five Leaders:
- 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.
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English bitrasshen, bitraisshen, variant of betraisen. More at betraise.
Verb edit
betrash (third-person singular simple present betrashes, present participle betrashing, simple past and past participle betrashed)
- (transitive, archaic) To betray.
- 1893, John Henry Barrows, Henry Ward Beecher:
- 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."
- 1893, James Baldwin, The famous allegories:
- 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 [...]
- 1901, Herbert Newton Casson, The crime of credulity:
- They seize the new principle that has just been discovered, and carry it to a preposterous extreme, betrashing the phrases of scientists and thinkers.