betrash

Definitions

1. To make or treat as trash.
   transitive
2. To betray.
   archaic, transitive

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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."”

“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 [...]”

“They seize the new principle that has just been discovered, and carry⟳ it to a preposterous extreme, betrashing the phrases of scientists and thinkers.”

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