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'Not Wanted on Voyage': There was mostly trash in the flea
market, but there were one or two more valuable items. 3 (In US
and Canada) rubbish, litter, garbage, waste, refuse, junk,
debris, rubble, dregs, dross, scoria, slag, offscourings, dirt,
sweepings, Slang crap: The service comes to remove the trash
once a week.
--v. 4 Slang chiefly US destroy, ruin, wreck, vandalize,
deface: The lodgers trashed the flat before doing a moonlight
flit.
traumatic adj. shocking, upsetting, disturbing, painful, agonizing,
distressing, harmful, hurtful, injurious, damaging, wounding,
traumatizing: Few experiences are more traumatic than losing a
child.
travel n. 1 travelling, tourism, touring, globe-trotting: Travel is
an enriching experience. Travel by air is the commonest means of
long-distance transport. 2 travels. trips, expeditions,
journeys, excursions, tours, voyages, touring, treks, trekking,
travelling, wanderings, peregrinations, junkets, pilgrimages:
In all your travels, have you ever encountered an honest man?
--v. 3 journey, go, move, proceed, roam, rove, traverse, tour,
take or make a trip or tour or excursion or junket or journey,
trek, voyage: As one who has travelled far and wide, what is
your favourite country? 4 go, move, socialize, fraternize,
associate, Colloq hang around or about: Cordelia and I do not
travel in the same circles.
traveller n. tourist, voyager, sightseer, globe-trotter, gypsy, wanderer,
hiker, rover, wayfarer, Jocular bird of passage, Colloq
rubberneck(er), jet-setter, Chiefly Brit tripper, day-tripper,
holiday-maker: Travellers have been greatly inconvenienced by
the strike of customs officials.
travelling
adj. itinerant, wandering, peripatetic, roving, mobile,
nomadic, touring, wayfaring, migratory, restless: At fourteen,
he joined a travelling circus.
traverse v. 1 cross, criss-cross, travel or pass or move over or
through, walk, cover, travel (over), roam, wander, range, tramp,