trashify

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English

Etymology

From trash +‎ -ify.

Verb

trashify (third-person singular simple present trashifies, present participle trashifying, simple past and past participle trashified)

  1. (transitive, informal) To turn (something) into trash; to lower the quality of.
    • 1964 March 14, J. Donald Backenstose, “This Week's Meditation…: On Having a High Regard for Yourself”, in Lebanon Daily News, volume 92, number 161, Lebanon, Pa., page 4:
      Today many people are cheapening themselves, devaluating their lives, trashifying their characters. They have strayed from and lost the high regard for themselves.
    • 1999, James H. Boren, How to be a Sincere Phoney: A Handbook for Politicians and Bureaucrats, Tahlequah, OK, Delaplane, VA: Birdcage Publications; EPM Custom Books, →ISBN, page 171:
      Trashify all reports with irrelevant data, maps, charts, and computer readouts.
    • 2000 December 31, Jim Hendrickson, “What the F#$@ is wrong with Netscape?”, in alt.html (Usenet):
      Same with font-sizes, have to bump it up a point or 2 because Netscape 4 displays it smaller than the rest of the browsers, so to get it to look "acceptable" in that 13%, you have to trashify the remaining 87% by placing bloated, non-compliant code which makes performance much worse.

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