betrash
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
From be- + trash.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
betrashes (present, singular)
betrashing (participle, present)
betrashed (participle, past)
betrashed (past)