Bags emptied initially with not much rubbish (8)
I believe the answer is:
belittle
'rubbish' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with communicating as well as being verbs in their base form.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'bags emptied initially with not much' is the wordplay.
'initially' indicates taking the first letters.
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'not much' becomes 'little' (a small amount).
The initial letters of 'bags emptied' is 'be'.
'be'+'little'='BELITTLE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for belittle that I've seen before include "Imply that something is unimportant, mock" , "Criticise" , "Humiliate" , "Make to seem unimportant" , "Disparage - minimise" .)