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Where unwanted items end up
Answer for the clue "Where unwanted items end up ", 9 letters:
scrapheap
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an accumulation of refuse and discarded matter [syn: garbage heap , junk heap , rubbish heap , trash heap , junk pile , trash pile , refuse heap ] pile of discarded metal
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES consign sb/sth to the dustbin/scrapheap/rubbish heap etc British English ▪ Many older people feel they have been consigned to the medical scrapheap. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He liked the way female models were thrown on ...
Usage examples of scrapheap.
That military scrapheap that Marcill and Hartig landed near was the biggest one detected.
Most of the ’discoveries’ that mankind built a civilization upon after the fall of the Golden Age were actually rediscoveries of alien science, pickings gleaned from the scrapheaps of vanished prehuman civilizations.
The old mining town had been turned into a scrapheap of abandoned vehicles, half-built houses, woodpiles, junk heaps, and geodesic outhouses.