trashes

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of trash. Rare, since trash is usually uncountable.

   Note

   A plural the everyday noun rarely needs. In its Canadian and American home, trash meaning discarded refuse usually works as a mass noun, so trashes appears mainly when kinds or batches of waste are being sorted, such as household, industrial or medical. In ordinary talk, more trash or piles of trash is the natural choice. Save trashes for contexts that count categories.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of trash.

   The critic trashes nearly every blockbuster the studio releases.

   A single storm trashes the boardwalk almost every fall.

   Note

   Verbs ending in -sh add -es, so this form is spelled exactly like the plural noun, and only the subject in front tells them apart. The American senses (discard, wreck, beat soundly) share it with the broader sense of spurning or disrespecting, which is what a critic does to a film. Less familiar senses hide here too: lopping or cropping a plant, and holding a hound back on a leash, hence hindering.

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