| Pronunciation: | | 'gârbij
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| Matching Terms: | | garbage can, garbage carter, garbage collect, garbage collection, garbage collector, garbage disposal, garbage dump, garbage hauler, garbage heap, garbage man, garbage pickup, garbage truck, garbageabetical order
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| | Definition: | | [n] food that is discarded (as from a kitchen) |
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| | Synonyms: | | food waste, refuse, scraps |
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| | See Also: | | waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Gar"bage\ (?; 48), n. [OE. also garbash, perh. orig.,
that which is purged or cleansed away; cf. OF. garber to make
fine, neat, OHG. garawan to make ready, prepare, akin to E.
garb dress; or perh. for garbleage, fr. garble; or cf. OF.
garbage tax on sheaves, E. garb sheaf.]
Offal, as the bowels of an animal or fish; refuse animal or
vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless,
disgusting, or loathsome. --Grainger.
\Gar"bage\, v. t.
To strip of the bowels; to clean. ``Pilchards . . . are
garbaged.'' --Holland.
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| Dream Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Dreaming that you are throwing away your garbage, suggests that you are kicking your old negative habits and throwing away your bad characteristics and unwanted traits.
Seeing piles of garbage in your dream, forewarns of scandal and that you need to change your old ways and bad habits.
Dreaming that you are disposing another's garbage, foretells that you will be inconvenienced to repair someone else's reputation. |
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| | Related Terms: | | bilge, bilgewater, bones, carrion, chaff, crap, culm, deadwood, debris, detritus, dishwater, ditchwater, draff, dregs, dross, dust, filings, filth, gash, hogwash, husks, junk, kelter, leavings, lees, litter, muck, offal, offscourings, orts, parings, potsherds, rags, raspings, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, rubble, scourings, scrap iron, scraps, scum, scurf, sewage, sewerage, shards, shavings, slack, slag, slop, slops, slough, stubble, sweepings, swill, tares, trash, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, weeds |
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