Dross synonyms
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The definition of garbage is waste to be thrown out, or anything worthless or offensive.
Refuse or worthless matter.
A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
Worthless material.
trash (related)
A container into which things are discarded.
Slag, as from the reduction of metallic ores
(Obs.) A passage marked for reference or included in a commonplace book
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The quality or condition of being impure, especially:
(Plural only) The sediment that settles during fermentation of beverages, consisting of dead yeast and precipitated parts of the fruit.
recrement
(Biology) A bodily secretion that is reabsorbed into the blood
All that is left after other parts have been taken away, used up, or destroyed.
scoria
Rough, crusty, solidified lava containing numerous vesicles that originated as gas bubbles in the lava while it was still molten.
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(Geol.) Matter deposited by water or wind
(Geol.) A concretionary sediment of silica or calcium carbonate deposited near the mouth of a mineral spring, geyser, etc.
The vitreous mass left as a residue by the smelting of metallic ore. It consists mostly of the siliceous and aluminous impurities from the iron ore.
detritus (related)
verbiage (related)
mediocrity (related)
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draff
Refuse or dregs, esp. of malt after brewing
scobs
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