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n. worthless material that is to be disposed of

v. make into scrap or refuse; "scrap the old airplane and sell the parts"

quarrel, dispute, scrap, argufy, altercate

v. have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These two fellows are always scrapping over something"

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waste, scrap, cast-off, discarded, junked

adj. thrown away; "wearing someone's cast-off clothes"; "throwaway children living on the streets"; "salvaged some thrown-away furniture"

folderol, rubbish, tripe, trumpery, trash, wish-wash, applesauce, codswallop

n. nonsensical talk or writing

garbage

n. a receptacle where waste can be discarded; "she tossed the moldy bread into the garbage"

material

n. a person judged suitable for admission or employment; "he was university material"; "she was vice-presidential material"

odds and ends, oddments, melange, farrago, ragbag, mishmash, mingle-mangle, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, gallimaufry, omnium-gatherum

n. a motley assortment of things

spar

v. fight with spurs; "the gamecocks were sparring"

wrestle

v. engage in a wrestling match; "The children wrestled in the garden"

wrestle

v. combat to overcome an opposing tendency or force; "He wrestled all his life with his feeling of inferiority"

disagree, differ, dissent, take issue

v. be of different opinions; "I beg to differ!"; "She disagrees with her husband on many questions"

battle, combat

v. battle or contend against in or as if in a battle; "The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Northern Iraq"; "We must combat the prejudices against other races"; "they battled over the budget"

compete, vie, contend

v. compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others

clash

v. disagree violently; "We clashed over the new farm policies"

futile, ineffectual, otiose, unavailing

adj. producing no result or effect; "a futile effort"; "the therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an unavailing attempt"

inutile

adj. not worth using

unserviceable, unusable, unuseable

adj. not capable of being used

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