betrash

From be- +‎ trash.

betrash (third-person singular simple present betrashes, present participle betrashing, simple past and past participle betrashed)

1. (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.

From Middle English bitrasshen, bitraisshen, variant of betraisen. More at betraise.

betrash (third-person singular simple present betrashes, present participle betrashing, simple past and past participle betrashed)

1. (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.

• bashert, bathers, berthas, breaths