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Rubbish

Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; debris.

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Assail 76% connected

To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery.

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Assault 76% connected

A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make as…

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Attack 76% connected

To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.

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Drivel 76% connected

To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard.

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Garbage 76% connected

Offal, as the bowels of an animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome.

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Round 76% connected

To whisper.

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Snipe 76% connected

Any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.

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Waste 76% connected

Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

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Debris 76% connected

Broken and detached fragments, taken collectively; especially, fragments detached from a rock or mountain, and piled up at the base.

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Detritus 76% connected

A mass of substances worn off from solid bodies by attrition, and reduced to small portions; as, diluvial detritus.

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Dust 76% connected

Fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; that which is crumbled too minute portion…

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Junk 76% connected

A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece. See Chunk.

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Litter 76% connected

A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.

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Rubble 76% connected

Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls.

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Synonym 6

Folderol 92% connected

Nonsense.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Scrap 92% connected

Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Trash 92% connected

That which is worthless or useless; rubbish; refuse.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Tripe 92% connected

The large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Trumpery 92% connected

Deceit; fraud.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Wish-wash 92% connected

Any weak, thin drink.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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