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Trashed hotel, breaking furniture (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

binned

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'trashed' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are past participle verbs, I can't see how one could define the other.

'hotel breaking furniture' is the wordplay.
'hotel' becomes 'inn' (inn is a kind of hotel).
'breaking' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'furniture' becomes 'bed' (bed is a kind of furniture).
'inn' put into 'bed' is 'BINNED'.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Another definition for binned that I've seen is " Discarded".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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