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lixo — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • debris noun Scattered pieces of wreckage, rubble, or litter left after something is destroyed or broken apart.
  • garbage noun Waste material, especially food scraps and household rubbish, thrown away as useless.
  • litter noun Rubbish or trash left lying around in a public place.
  • refuse verb To say no to a request, offer, or order.
  • trash noun Discarded material; garbage or rubbish.
  • tripe noun The stomach lining of a cow or other ruminant animal, prepared and eaten as food.
  • waste noun Material that is no longer wanted or useful; rubbish.

Senses

lixo is used for these senses in English:

  • debris Litter and discarded refuse.
  • garbage Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
  • garbage can (North America) A receptacle, usually roughly cylindrical and wider at the top than at the bottom, which serves as a place to discard waste materials.
  • refuse Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.
  • trash (chiefly, North American) Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
  • trash (chiefly, North American, metonym) A container into which things are discarded.
  • trash (chiefly, North American, figurative) Something worthless or of poor quality.
  • trash (chiefly, North American, slang, derogatory) People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)

garbage — full definition

  1. noun Waste material, especially food scraps and household rubbish, thrown away as useless.
  2. noun Nonsense, or something of very poor quality.

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