wastebasket in English

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1
a receptacle for small quantities of rubbish.
Drifts of paper - treaty drafts, industry talking points, environmentalist press releases - overflowed every wastebasket .
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1. The word Ashcan is an older synonym for wastebasket, trAshcan, or …

2. Bassett winnowed these carefully, brushing the Chaff into his wastebasket and retaining a few kernels for later use

3. Bathroom sets typically consist of a wastebasket, soap dish, tissue box, lotion dispenser, tumbler and toothbrush holder

4. Past tense of crumple Synonyms & Antonyms of Crumpled 1 to create (as by crushing) an irregular mass of creases in Crumpled the piece of paper and angrily threw it in the wastebasket